Today at the State Historical Museum to the public started showing graphic surrealism - from De Chirico to Magritte

Today at the State Historical Museum opening of the exhibition "The collective unconscious: graphic surrealism of De Chirico to Magritte", which presents works by the brightest representatives of Surrealism - Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali Roberto Matta, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst and others. The exposition of 74 works produced a gallery InArtis (Moscow).

• Mannequin
  Lithography
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The exhibition provides an engraving "Mannequin", which reflects one of the main works of Giorgio de Chirico, "protosyurrealista" that defined his style as "metaphysical realism". Early work by Giorgio de Chirico had a significant influence on the formation of surrealism and the creativity of its representatives, as Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, Dali and De Chirico considered one of his favorite artists. Search art form a new trend is well illustrated by the famous "Victorian collages by Max Ernst.

• May Salon. 1965 Lithograph
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• Eye
  Lithography
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core of the exhibition is a retrospective of graphics Rene Magritte. This well-known Belgian artist formed his own very recognizable style, in which ordinary objects do not change their form, not distorted in the "look unconscious," but appear in a very unusual combinations, destroying the deceptive self-evidence of the usual things. In Russia, Magritte's works are exhibited rarely, also in his life he created only 20 graphic works, most of which will be presented at the exhibition.

influence of surrealism have experienced not only the European artists . Surrealist was the most famous Chilean painter Roberto Matta. The exhibition provides a very typical for his work from the series "The Argonauts».

• Ultrasyurrealisticheskaya corpuscular Tick Lithograph
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most vivid embodiment of surrealism reached in the works of Salvador Dali, in his time said: "Surrealism - it's me." It is thanks to his work of marginal avant-garde movements surrealism transformed into an influential artistic movement. The exhibition presents a number of recent works by the artist.

Particular attention is paid to the design of the exhibition: halls transformed into a surreal space with installations and video projections that can plunge into the paradoxical fantasy artists transformed modern digital consciousness .

exhibition will run until April 25, 2011.

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