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Surrealism

If any contemporary art movement attached special importance to the treatment of the shadow this was surrealism, particularly in its representation of dreams. With a meticulous technique and wholesale use of shadows, artists like Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux and Esteban Francés endowed the representation of dreams with even greater credibility than the reality we see through our own eyes. Moreover, within the so-called ‘paranoiac-critical’ method, Dalí used shadows as an aid to recomposing contradictory images. Finally, the room also features examples of Max Ernst’s and Joseph Cornell’s always intriguing work.