Surrealism, a movement very much the rage in Europe, both in painting and in literature, is making headway in America. The most widely discussed painter in the movement is Salvador Dali, whose exhibition scored a great success at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.

Two of his paintings are here reproduced. In one we see such symbolical objects as a slipper and a goblet, imprisoned under the skin of a young woman who is buried to the waist in a strange, deserted landscape. In the distance there is a shining palisade. Perhaps the slipper and goblet represent the causes of the young woman's remorse, the consciousness of her illicit desires or of her throes of disillusionment. The lower picture is frankly an attempt to recreate wonderland: to show a lake, miraculously, through the back of a seated peasant woman. Dali's paintings are attempts to fuse the world of the imagination with the world of reality. Like all Surrealist painters, he attempts to reconstruct the images in our Freudian subconscious and the pattern of our dreams

Examples of Surrealist art by Salvador Dali