Surrealism by Marie Christine Dechezleprêtre

Marie Christine’s surrealistic style is very much in the tradition of Rene Magritte, the Belgium master, who is best known for his contribution to the movement. Dechezleprêtre is a student of Surrealism, a movement in visual art that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. The movement grew principally out of the earlier Dada Movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; the emphasis of Surrealism was on positive expression. The movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction shaped by the “rationalism” that his guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of war. Westport River Gallery has several of her works available.