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Surrealism in Sculpture

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Henry Moore

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Surrealism influenced Moore's exploration of the unconscious through organic forms, psychological landscapes, and his sculptural interest in the interior space of forms.

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Max Ernst

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Ernst's sculptures exuded a sense of strangeness and play with unexpected juxtapositions, using techniques such as assemblage to manifest his Surrealist visions.

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Salvador Dalí

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Dalí's sculptural work often reflects the same paradoxical and dream-like imagery found in his paintings, creating bizarre and thought-provoking three-dimensional surreal experiences.

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Alberto Giacometti

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While not strictly a surrealist, Giacometti's early works demonstrate a Surrealist influence, focusing on dreamlike and often disturbing forms that explore the psyche.

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Jean Arp

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Arp utilized chance arrangements of forms and biomorphic shapes in his sculptures, which reflect Surrealism's interest in the unconscious and its manifestation in art.

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Joan Miró

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Miró's works, initially more affiliated with painting, evolved into sculptures which carried Surrealist influence with playful, whimsical forms and vibrant colors that suggest a subconscious logic.

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Louise Bourgeois

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Bourgeois’s sculptures, although spanning multiple movements, contain Surrealist elements, with their often unsettling exploration of themes such as family, sexuality, and the subconscious.

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Man Ray

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Known for his photography, Man Ray also applied Surrealist thought to his sculptural works, which often play with absurdity and challenge traditional perceptions of objects.

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Meret Oppenheim

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Her work, especially pieces like 'Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure),' demonstrates a Surrealist transformation of everyday objects into unexpected, provocative works of art.

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Marcel Duchamp

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Even though Duchamp is associated with Dadaism, his concept of the 'Readymade' influenced Surrealist sculptors to reconsider the artistic significance of found objects.

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Isamu Noguchi

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While not exclusively a Surrealist, some of Noguchi's organic and abstract forms suggest surreal influences, with a fluidity that appears to tap into the subconscious.

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Hans Bellmer

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Bellmer's infamous doll sculptures are a quintessential example of Surrealist fascination with the uncanny and the transformation of the human body into a landscape of desire and anxiety.

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