Surrealism- ( French: surrealisme)a modern art trend of twentieth century, a source of which is a sphere of sub consciousness (instincts, dreams, hallucinations) and its method is a rapture of substituted subject associations.

Dadaism- (French: dadaisme, “dada”- a wood horse, child’s babble) a modern art trend in , which was formed in Switzerland among anarchic intelligentsia. Dadaism protested against the First World War and depicted it with the help of irrationalism, pessimistic antiestetism, peculiar artistic hooliganism- absurd combination of letters and sounds, astrakhans, pseudo drawings, a set of occasional things.

Artists of surrealism:  Salvador Dali  Max Ernst  Andre Breton  Paul Eluar  H. Bloom

Salvador Dali  Date of birth: May  Place: Figerace, Spain  Family: father- a notary, atheist; mother- catholic.  Education: Art Academy, Madrid, but he was expelled because of his bad behavior.  Wife and muse: Gala Eluar, ex-wife of surrealist Paul Eluar.  Date of Death: January

Max Ernst  Date of Birth: April,  Family: Max was the second child from six children; father: Philip Ernst, a teacher at deaf school.  Education: Faculty of Philosophy, Bonn University.  Wives: Ernst had 3 wives, but only his last wife supported him in his work.  Date of death: April,