Meaning Behind the Dreams

Through these crazy new uncensored ideas and way of thinking, the surrealists were able to explore more of the bizarre, illogical and really dream-like images. Surrealism could probably be summed p by those words, maybe with "random" thrown in there. The funny part is a lot of people try and find meanings behind the surrealist art, but it truly can be meaningless and simply figments of artists imagination thrown on to paper or just interesting ideas. So in this post I really wanted to throw some really just bizarre, illogical, plain crazy looking pieces of surrealism to take in.

Now when Salvador Dali was questioned on possible meaning behind his work, he declared himself apolitical, stating that "I am Dali, and only that". But people still manage to dig into the work saying things like how through a Freudian perspective the piece represents a personal struggle with battle in his home country. Though they believe to be able to back all that up, I'm still with Dali and think the meaning is either up for grabs or nothing at all. So, for this piece and many more, that answer is up tot he viewer.

The Burning Giraffe (1937)

Salvador  Dalí 

Now Dali did come back to his work often, and I will admit I cannot find the exact date online... BUT I know it was created after the piece above. But Dali had a lot of different themes within his work like the burning giraffes or elephants for example. This piece and probably every one of Dali's works could be turned upside down and a have a million meanings but really this thing just looks crazy to me haha.