Surrealists and the Art of Dreams

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Surrealists and the Art of Dreams:

Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Frida Kahlo


After World War I, artists explored a new way of expressing the human condition influenced by the subconscious. Man Ray revolutionized photography in dreamlike images of women. Salvador Dalí expressed his unique vision in hallucinatory paintings. René Magritte created paintings of man’s surreal existence. Mexican painter Frida Kahlo became known for her vibrant, symbolic self-portraits that explored themes of identity, the body, and death. Each artist had a profound impact on modern art in the twentieth century.


Thursday, February 5 • 11:00am-12:00pm • ZoomCourse 13813 • $30

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BOB POTTER is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He spent his early career as an art director and creative director for leading media companies including Scholastic Magazines, Time Warner, and National Geographic. Over the past decade, he helped create an arts therapy program for Save The Children, was a corporate development officer for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and oversaw marketing and communications for the Mystic Seaport Museum. Most recently, he launched a professional development program for art students at the Lyme Academy, and is a docent at the Yale Center For British Art.

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