What is Veristic Surrealism?
Veristic surrealism is a style of surrealistic art which is designed to portray the dream world in rich detail. One of the more famous veristic surrealists was Salvador Dali, who painted ornate scenes of melting clocks, fantastical creatures, and other elements. The style is often marked by strangely veristic, meaning realistic, painting which seems to draw the viewer into a fantasy world that has no connection with reality.
Veristic surrealism is a style of surrealistic art which is designed to portray the dream world in rich detail. One of the more famous veristic surrealists was Salvador Dali, who painted ornate scenes of melting clocks, fantastical creatures, and other elements. The style is often marked by strangely veristic, meaning realistic, painting which seems to draw the viewer into a fantasy world that has no connection with reality. Surrealism began in the early twentieth century, and included literature, art, and performance. The surrealists were trying to portray the unconscious, and to take viewers away from the horrors of the modern world, exemplified by the First World War. In 1924, Andre Breton, one of the founding fathers of the surrealist movement, described the art form as portraying “an ultimate reality.” Breton believed that by bringing the unconscious into art, people could be provoked into thought and discussion about the world around them.
