The importance of imagery enriched by dreams, real or unreal, is pivotal in thrusting Surrealism to the forefront of 20th century art. Art, like a river, flows to its ultimate destination. Those who follow that river, consciously or subconsciously, will leave their mark on the banks of history. It is not an easy course, it is a rough voyage through the gorges of opposition, over the rapids of conflict, along the valleys of indifference to the estuary of wisdom. The struggle of excellence against the raging sea of mediocrity is endless.
Freedom of expression is still at the core of the Surrealist creation.
There are no limitations to the flight of the imagination. There is no time, there is no space in a dream-world. Surrealism is the magic that liberates our mind from the chains of time and enables us, the artists, to charge familiar objects and sites with mystery and enchantment. In a painting so created, you can still recognize a man and a woman , a horse and a rider , a plant and a tree , a flower and a fruit , and yet the relation with each other goes beyond the realm of appearance, and the interrelationship between appearance and reality goes to the center of the enigma that converts the known into the unknown - the act of painting is at once cathartic and regenerative. Woman is presented as the subject of desire in the erotic composition of many paintings but Love is still glorified as much as creative power notwithstanding the libidinous cravings of our mind and body.