Surrealism
Surrealists explored dreams and the unconscious. This topic is part of Art Movements within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Surrealism trivia questions
Surrealism is famous for dreamlike and often what kind of imagery?
Answer: Unexpected
Bonus fact: Surrealists explored dreams and the unconscious.
Which artist painted The Persistence of Memory?
Answer: Salvador Dalí
Bonus fact: The painting features melting clocks.
Surrealism was strongly influenced by ideas about the unconscious from whom?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Bonus fact: Freudian psychology fascinated many Surrealists.
Which earlier psychological thinker strongly influenced Surrealism?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Bonus fact: Freud's ideas about dreams and the unconscious were central.
André Breton is most closely associated with which movement?
Answer: Surrealism
Bonus fact: He was one of Surrealism's principal theorists.
Who co-created the surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou" with Salvador Dalí?
Answer: Luis Buñuel
Bonus fact: The 1929 short film became one of the most famous works of cinematic surrealism.