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... against all aspects of Western culture. Like Dadaism, surrealism emphasized the role of the unconscious in creative activity, but it employed the psychic unconscious in a more orderly and more serious manner. Artists in Surrealism: * Paul Éluard, * Louis Aragon * René Crevel * Philippe Soupault * William Blake * Odilon Redon * Salvador Dali * Rene Magritte Andy Warhol * Andy Warhol was born in 1928 and died in 1987 * He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. * His ideas and work helped shape American mass media and popular culture. * He attracted attention in the 1960's with exhibitions of Pop Art subjects from daily life, such as Campbell's Soup Can and Green Coca-Cola. * His subjects also included Marilyn Monroe. * In 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum, the largest single artist museum in the United States, opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. * From 1969 until his death, he published Interview, a monthly magazine with illustrated articles about current celebrities. Rene Magritte * Rene ...