Absurdism in Life and Art, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Others
Philosophical and art movement.
5 min readMar 23, 2023
Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd.
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
― Albert Camus.
Sisyphus, the symbol of the absurdity of existence, painting by Franz Stuck (1920).
Franz Ritter von Stuck was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect.
Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with The Sin in 1892.
In 1906, Stuck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Ritter von Stuck.
Absurdism in art is a philosophical and artistic movement that emerged in the mid-20th century as a response to the absurdity of human…
