Dalí’s melting clocks provide a visual counterpart to Surrealism’s transformation of reality, where time, perception, desire, and the unconscious replace rational stability with fluid and unstable meaning.
Duchamp removes a bicycle wheel and stool from ordinary function and combines them into a rotating conceptual object that radically questions authorship, aesthetics, artistic skill, and the boundaries of art.
Dadaism challenged traditional art through readymades, collage, photomontage, nonsense, performance, chance, irony, and the deliberate disruption of artistic and cultural seriousness.
