Surrealism & Dada

        After the class as well as searching for the internet, I have known many things about Dada and Surrealism.

For some historical reason, people in the World War One are all quite hurt and they had some wound on their mind more or less. These may lead to the Dada artists proposed that everything should be destroyed, even people and history. I don`t think it is a rational opinion which is another kind of Nihilism, but I can understand these people under that background. They are anguished and need to create a new meaning for their lives.

After the World War One, many Dada artists turned Surrealism. They paint with fantasy and drifted from the real world. The color is pure and bright, such as Salvador Dalí`s work: The Persistence of Memory (1931). We can see from some typical works that the Surrealism also had absorbed some element of romanticism and symbolism.