"The Brothers Twin"

I have always enjoyed and been intrigued by Surrealist artwork, most people have seen Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” aka melting clocks and other Surrealist paintings. It was not until the careful viewing of “The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer” by the Brothers Quay that I looked further into their influences (they make it real easy)
If you are not a student of art history you may not realize that the whole Surrealist movement did not start in the art world at all. (I had no idea.) It is generally credited as being started by the French author and poet Andre Breton--Surrealism had its start in literature.


One of Breton’s mentors and friends actually coined the word and here is a quote from him:

“When a man tried to imitate walking he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. He thus performed an act of Surrealism without realizing it.”
-- Guillaume Apollinaire