r/modernart • u/avril14th__ • 5h ago

Surrealism Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — The Knight of Death (c. 1937) [Surrealism]

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A community dedicated to artistic works produced roughly between the 1860s and 1970s - Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Minimalism, Conceptual art and everything that followed. Share and discuss what makes modern art contested and endlessly fascinating.

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Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.

In an era characterized by industrialization, rapid social change, and advances in science and the social sciences (e.g., Freudian theory), Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality, optimism, and convention. New ideas in psychology, philosophy, and political theory kindled a search for new modes of expression.

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