INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM IS "THE THRESHOLD SECRET"
On this occasion, is shown in Figure Museum of Chillán from Monday 26 April to 28 May, a selection of works by one of the groups surrealist classics, I mean Stir Up Group, the Czech Republic. These artists are the direct heirs of the Surrealists who worked around Breton, as Toyen, and Styrsky.
The paradox of life is that Czech Surrealist painters and theorists were persecuted by the Nazis and (unfortunately later in the 50's,) also by the Communists. Surrealism is related to the Ra group. Two of the most famous painters were Jindřich Styrsky (1899-1942) and Toyen (1902-1980). J.
Styrsky as the first surrealist collage made use of colors and dreams systematically investigated as a source of inspiration of artistic creation. Apart from dreams, played in his work the theme of eroticism, imagination aggressive and black humor. Marie
Černínova Toyen was known as the fundamental character of surrealist art at European level and also she was a rebel with a huge imagination. Through the resources typical of surrealist art able to express the irrationality and absurdity of war.
With France and surrealist imagery is also linked Josef Sima (1891-1971). His paintings take us to a mysterious place where the rocks become creatures that float in the air, inert matter, in general, comes to the human aspect.
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