Art Movement: Surrealism artists

Here are some surrealism artists, I have chosen these 3 images to look at.

Salvador Dali 'Sleep'

I quite like this painting by Salvador. The face is being help up by wooden crutches, it also looks as if its just balanced right and any movement will cause it to fall and wake the face up. The background is quite barren apart from a temple looking building on the far right. This gives a hint that this is drawn in the dream, that it is not real.

Giorgio de Chirico 'Melancholia'

Max Ernst 'Europe after the Rain II' Decalcomania technique

This is a Decalcomania technique. Paint is placed on a board of some sort with some water, you mix the paint and water around and place a piece of paper down then peel it off. It leaves a paint mark that you are able to work into with paint brushes or pens / pencils. This was created using this technique. I quite like the look of this and it does look like the buildings have been eroded away after the rain, part of the buildings are slumped or not there to show the damage. I have also tried this technique with my own work.