Joan Miró

Paysage de Mont-roig (1916) 

oil on canvas 36.5 x 46 cm

Smoker Head (1925)

L'ete (1938)

The Flight of the dragonfly in front of the Sun, (1968)

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism.He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Surrealism: Max Ernst

The Robing of the Bride, 1940

Ci meurent les cardinaux, 1962

oil on canvas

 Mirage, 1966

Ein Mond ist guter Dinge, 1970

Pierrot

Oiseaux

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst

Marcel Duchamp

Laundry Barge, 1910

A propos de Jeune Soeur (About Young Sister), 1911

Portrait of Chess Players, 1911



 Nude Descending a Staircase no. 2, 1912

Transition of virgin into a bride, 1912 oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

Giorgio de Chirico

Self-portrait

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914

Self Portrait with Palette, 1924

The Enigma of the Arrival and the Afternoon (1911-12)

Metaphysical Interior with sun which dies, 1971

Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico