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Surrealism

the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations

Not To Be Reproduced

(Magritte, 1937)

Golconda

(Magritte, 1953)

Absurdism

a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe

Discord of Analogy

(Cheval)

Gold Fish

(Cheval)

Postmodernism

of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)http://www.onpostmodernism.com/art

Cubism

a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects

Guernica (Picasso, 1937)

Three Musicians

(Picasso, 1921)

Spellbound

(1945)

Inception

(2010)

Dr. Strange

(2016)