Artist: Salvador Dali
Date: 1960
Medium: Paintings, Painting
Size: 29 1/4 x 34 3/4 in. (74.3 x 88.27 cm) (canvas)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 84.5

It is classic Salvador Dali.  There is wide open spaces contrasted by very cluttered spaces.  There is a lot of movement created by the lines and triangles of all the tacks.  The artist does great job of guiding you through the painting with those suttle cues.

Artist: Salvador Dali
Date: 1938
Medium: Sculpture
Size: 8 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (20.96 x 31.12 x 16.51 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 96.2

This artwork combines two very obscure objects.  They do have similarities in shape in the tail of the lobster and the receiver of the phone.  Also the hard plastic phone has a luminosity like the hard outer shell of the lobster.

Artist: René Magritte
Date: 1963
Medium: Prints, Print
Size: 9 3/16 x 11 7/8 in. (23.34 x 30.16 cm) (image)9 9/16 x 12 3/8 in. (24.29 x 31.43 cm) (sheet)15 x 19 x 1 1/2 in. (38.1 x 48.26 x 3.81 cm) (outer frame)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: P.84.36

This painitng ha a very soft feel to it, in large part to the colors of the painting, the soft pink flesh tomes.  The softness is emphasised by the gentle touch of the hand to the pink surface.  The face on the wrist quietly appears out of the shadows of the fore arm as the eyes gaze gently at what the hand is touching.

Artist: René Magritte
Date: 1955
Medium: Paintings, Painting
Size: 64 1/8 x 51 1/8 in. (162.88 x 129.86 cm) (canvas)73 7/8 x 60 7/8 x 4 in. (187.64 x 154.62 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 68.3

Am I looking at out the window or at a painting?  Or both?  Magritte created a number of paintings with easels infront of open windows to the outside world.  The illusion is created by his ability to match the colors out side with what is happening on his canvas.

Artist: Peter Dechar
Date: 1967
Medium: Paintings
Size: unframed 36.25 x 52.125 x 1.625 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1968.7

I AM A PEAR!  It is a surreal felling to be sitting on a shelf with the other pears, waiting for someone to come along and select me to enjoy.  It is a very simple design with great sense of space created by the use of values.

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudnitsky) ; Publisher Emmanuel Galleria II Fauno, Turin
Date: 1921 (replicated in a 1970 edition of 11)
Medium: Sculpture
Size: 6 x 3 1/2 x 5 in. (15.24 x 8.89 x 12.7 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 97.20.1

Something tells me this iron is not going to work.  This piece combines two different ideas, and irons purpose is to release wrinkles, where a nails is to hold things together. To see the two combined like this is a strange or surreal idea.

Artist: Sherrie Levine
Date: 1990
Medium: Sculpture, Sculptures
Size: 33.25 x 115 x 65.25 inches
Institution: Walker Art Center
Accession #: 1992.156.1-.8

I love this one.  It is a pool table that you will never win on, there are no pockets.  By simply removing something so vital to the game yet so simple you are trapped in a never ending game of pool.  But  which cue ball do you hit?  Another dilemma.

Artist: Robert Heinecken
Date: 1988
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 10 13/16 x 9 7/8 in. (27.46 x 25.08 cm) (image)14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm) (plate)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 93.46.9

This is a more modern example of Surealism.  It is an over lay of two differnt images, one being a comb in a jar and the other being a portrait.  They may have deeper meaning from the text which it is hard to read, but the way the lines interact is interesting by it self.  The artist crops both pictures so that they interact with each other to create nice movement.