Abstract

Art

In this article, the author focuses on various surrealist painters specially Salvador Dali, Spanish painter, and the noted U.S. painter, Robert Motherwell. It was, suggestively, a recurrent theme in Robert Motherwell's conversation no less than in his writing that the movement then indelibly designated Abstract Expressionism ought by rights to have been called Abstract Surrealism. Motherwell felt that this was because of the role "psychic automatism" played in the kind of painting distinctive of the movement, as well as in the explanation and justification of that painting. Surrealism was marked by a profound distrust of rational processes, which segregate people from the deep sources of creativity to be found in subconscious mental processes. Whereas, Surrealists admired children and cherished the art of primitive people, who again seemed to them to live close to what Europeans must struggle to retain.