SURREALISM, described and explained in short text-quotes - free resource, French art history

**Surrealism & the surrealist artists, shortly described and explained in text-quotes + art images ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Surrealism was a characteristic French modern art movement, started in the early 1920’s. The selected text-quotes here on Surrealism are taken from the famous Dutch art-critic Jacob Bendien. He himself was a contemporary artist of Surrealism.

Bendien explains and describes the history facts, art-characteristics and the meaning of Surrealism and its artists. Founder of Surrealism was the French writer Andre Breton. Other famous Surrealists were Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Segal, Picabia, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Delvaux, Manson, Max Ernst a. o. You can find their quotes here on TES, and on Wikiquote as well, under their own names.
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Some selected text-quotes on Surrealism by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes, in the PDF:

• ’The Surrealist artists like bravery and strength, but both without pathos; love, preferably in the most earthly meaning of the word; intelligence without slickness, strict rebelliousness, despising all social prosperity… .They believe that no new life can come about without violence.'

• ’For Surrealists, the highest value is freedom. Freedom of thought and freedom of expression. This is the only possible freedom for us. Not in order to produce subtleties… .The Surrealist aspires to free expression void of all subtleties, gained by freedom of thought.'

• ’According to them Marx showed the motivation of social life and Freud that of spiritual life, and both were extremely popular with Surrealists.'
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  useful links for more free art-resources on Surrealism - French art history

• an extend description of Surrealism, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

• selected artist-quotes on Surrealism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Surrealism

• art- images of Surrealism: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Surrealism
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  editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
  translation, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]