Surrealism Collage

Digital collage

Digital collage is the technique of using computer tools in collage creation to encourage chance associations of disparate visual elements and the subsequent transformation of the visual results through the use of electronic media.

Collage, as the Surrealists implemented it, above all emphasized the notion and preference of simultaneity. Things that are usually exclusive of each other exist all at once, like night and day, word and image, silence and scream, birth and death, and calm and confusion. Paradox, as we know it through its ubiquity in contemporary art, has many precursoral sources. In this exhibition of mostly works completed before 1950, Surrealist collage stakes its claim as well to this tradition of contradiction.

Surrealism is a style in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.

Surrealism[1] is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur, however many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement.