Surrealism Wall Art

The Scoop on Surrealist Art

Surrealist wall art is one of the most effective ways to make your interiors look bolder and more imaginative. With surrealist canvas prints, your interiors can seem playful, dreamy, and unconventional.

Beginning in Europe in the 1920s, surrealist art found its most profound expression in paintings. It combines elements of mythology, fantasy, and dream-like imagery. Surrealists were reacting to the social, cultural, and political values of the time and breaking away from the limiting and rational approach of their predecessors.

Surrealists go beyond reality to explore the unconscious. The psychological nature of surrealist collage wall art makes it dramatically different from other streams. The most popular surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, André Breton, and René Magritte used their art as a means to prompt personal psychic investigations and revelations.

Venturing beyond the conscious mind, surrealist wall art pursues insights from the unconscious. Through constant experimentation, surrealist canvas prints explore personal fantasies, whether they’re conscious or unconscious. Particularly with surrealist collage art, you get to combine the rational world with fantasies and create a ‘surreality.’

Heavily rooted in Sigmund Freud’s work, surrealist wall art prefers the imaginative or unconscious part of the mind. Surrealist artists access untapped realms of the unconscious, the way poets would do. What they create may not be easy to define. But it’s bold, stunning, unfettered, and untethered from reality.

So, what can you expect from the surrealist wall art collection at Great Big Canvas? Metaphysical atmospheres, mysterious landscapes and environments, identity explorations, strange juxtapositions, metaphorical movements, fascinating dreams, and anything else that defies traditional expressions.

Created using a variety of techniques including doodles, collages, and frottage, surrealist wall art will lead to different interpretations every time you see it. That alone makes surrealist canvas prints an imaginative addition to any home.