Through the use of dreams, the artist was able to tap into the subconscious and produce art works that are spontaneous. ... Surrealists believed that chance, memory, desire, coincidence would meet in a new reality - a sur reality. ... Surrealism placed sexuality and desire at the centre of its concerns and symbolically placed "woman" as the focus of its dreams. ... Dali defined it as "an object produced by an "objective perversion", which expresses desires that have been repressed." ... To Dali, "the Surrealist object was the incarnation of desire - through substitution and metaphor and their...

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