/lit/ - Literature

This is only 1 of 2 paintings I've saved on my computer over the years.

>>20046773
I love Dali, but I'm kind of over him, even though he was a big entry way into modern art for me. I think his techniques are far too conscious. His depictions of unconscious activity are too vast and intelligent. Magritte, too, is very high concept. These men were too educated, and they knew what they were doing, ironically because they were surrealists. I prefer the spontaneous, unacademic, childish work of Picasso. Picasso's pictures truly feel like pictures of dreams. Lots of Dali feels like what a college professor would use as an illustration of how the unconscious work. Both fine in their own right, but I find Picasso more satisfying on a gut level. I don't think I have a favorite Dali. Too balanced. Magritte always made me angry, and I don't know why. It's ugly.