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Ah, had one good class in college, Concepts in Surrealism. What I remember...the instructor, who also ran the Art Museum on Campus, was someone who looked more like a footballer, but truly an artists mind. How surrealism came from the experience of WW1, men in the trenches suddenly finding their mates beside them without their heads, of them learning to 'duck' at certain sounds. The absurdness of war, of images that made 'no sense' because it was a new kind of 'non-sense', of humans trying to make sense of high powered destruction. C'est une pipe? https://www.renemagritte.org/the-treachery-of-images.jsp

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