Surrealism split into two groups in the 1930's. These two groups were the Automatists and the Veristic Surrealists. Although they were similiar, they had many differances. It was said that Automatism was the only type of surrealism accepted by critical reviews after the was (Aronson 125). The basis of each group was a different, but their stand points remained the same, art through the subconscienceness. The artists in the automatists group interpreted surrealism as reffering to …
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…Temptation of Saint Anthony, The Persistence of Memory, and Metamorphosis of Narcissus. In Dali's painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, he refers to the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus. It was about a young man who fell in love with his own reflection and was transformed into a beautiful flower. At your first look you may only see a body of a man, but if you look deeper, the image will become a hand holding an egg.