triangle rectangle cube square cylinder Salvador Dali The Surrealist style Art & Design Painting styles 9.pptx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%ED (1904 -1989) Spanish painter 1898 – 1967 Brussels, Belgium Surrealist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque 1907 Terrace of a hotel Spanish cuisine Cubism was a popular painting style from around the 1900s. Pablo Picasso and George Braque were two famous Cubist painters. They used Cubism to show people a new way of seeing the world. They looked at an object or person and broke it down into shapes. Then they put these shapes together to make a picture which represented the original object even though it make it may not look very much like it anymore. They used shapes such as rectangles, cylinders and cubes. Most of their paintings were dark and used dull colors like grey and brown. This makes the paintings seem to have many layers and so it can be seen from a number of different viewpoints Artists such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte in the Surrealist style that was at its most popular form from the 1920s to the 1960s. Surrealist paintings always have an element of surprise in them. They put strange images and ideas together to create strange presentation of things. The Surrealists painted images and ideas from their dreams and their imaginations. They often used bright colors to create an even bigger impact and always showed people and objects in new and unusual ways. Fruit dish Braque Melancholy Dali 1942
