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1. Surrealism

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   While Surrealist painting encompassed diverse styles, two major approaches dominated:
   Veristic (or Illusionistic) Surrealism: Artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte utilized hyper-realistic, academic rendering techniques to depict impossible, irrational scenes. The meticulous detail lent a disturbing credibility to the dream logic presented. Dalí famously termed his method the "paranoiac-critical method," a spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the interpretative association of delirious phenomena. [^3]
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