Surreal Resources

They are easy to find, and even easier to understand. If you understand them. These resources on Surrealism and its influence are almost entirely subjective, like most things. Just like YouTube in Turkey. 

Don't be fooled by what you see, or by what you read. Learn to see. And to read. Look beyond / beneath the image.

> Preliminaries: read the image. Carefully.

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> Magritte. The master of the image.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. René Magritte

> Buñuel. The master of cinema.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Luis Buñuel

> Dali. The master of shock.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. Salvaldor Dali

> L'Age D'Or 1930. The film.

> Dali being surreal on telly - but how do you know?

> Breton. The Master of theory.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. André Breton

> Man Ray. The Master of style.

It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. Man Ray

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> Musings on the Masters and Women

Works of genius or sexually obsessed patriachs?

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> Before and after Surrealism

Be it the theories of Dada, or the weird images of Bosch and Arcimboldo, the Surrealists had their precursors. And their followers. Their influence is everywhere. On the margins and in the mainstream. And what about Lady Gaga?