Dada and Surrealism

[Bucky Ball]

Beauty will be convulsive...

These movements present a mindset that cultivated the avant garde experimentation of the early 20th century. Both began as rejections of the status quo orthodoxy. This way of thinking produced some wonderful artwork - Picasso and De Chirico and Matisse, Joyce, Eliot, Josephine Baker, Jellyroll Morton, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong..... all spawned from the same stuff. The mindset represents freedom, or at least takes the rules less seriously. Lots of cool works in the subgenres.

I went to a large Matisse exhibit once, and in the middle of it there was a large thunderstorm. The power went out, 
and all I could think of was "how many of these priceless paintings are going to be gone when the power comes back on ?" 
They were all there. LOL

Have you seen the Monets in the Musee de l'Orangeri ?
We call it the "orange-ery"

ETA: if you're ever in France, you can go to Monet's home in Giverny. The back yard looks exactly like the paintings.
https://en.normandie-tourisme.fr/unmissa...s/giverny/