I chose to research the relationship between Cubism and Surrealism and Surrealism and the art world. Cubism originated in Paris in 1907 and continued to be successful in France until 1914. Around 1911, the rest of the world began to discover this movement and Cubism remained until 1919. In the late 19th century and At the start of the 20th century, the world was just beginning to discover the movement. art of African natives, due to the war between Africa and the British, diversifying the population which also included natives from the United States, Mexico and Argentina, resulting in a spread of culture. This has caused other parts of the world to acquire new ways of thinking and perceiving things in the world around them. For example, revising Newton's law of gravitation which states that gravity on an object is constant, to Einstein's theory of general relativity which states that speed will change the rate of attraction of an object. These revisions allowed people to reconsider their usual ways of thinking, including looking at things from different perspectives and questioning what they knew to be considered normal. This results in stylistic traits of Cubism that distort perspectives, disassemble and reassemble objects in abstract ways, while also emphasizing two-dimensional surfaces (Cottington, 2005). The Surrealist movement developed in the late 1910s and early 1920s, but it was not an official movement until 1924, when André Breton created the "Surrealist Manifesto ". André Breton's work is said to have been stimulated by Sigmund Freud's theories on the unconscious. The meaning of these theories removed the boundaries between the real world and the fantasies of the human subconscious. One of the most...... middle of paper ......ation. Another relevance between the two pieces is that World War I directly impacted the vision the company took to create this piece. Cubism's "The Guitarist" was a slightly chaotic interpretation of what was happening in the world during the war between Africa and Britain. Similarly, Dali's interpretation in “The Persistence of Memory” was more of a meditation on what was happening in the world during the prelude to World War II (Durozoi, 2002) (Cottington, 2005). In conclusion, both periods of art have had their influence on the world in different and similar aspects. Both are worth studying and knowing in their own right.ReferencesCottington, D. (2005). Cubism and its stories. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. Durozoi, G. (2002). History of the surrealist movement. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.