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The Joslyn Art Museum featured a surrealist art exhibit in 1986, drawing crowds questioning what the pieces meant.The surrealist movement started during World War I when the horror that was war forced the artist into the subconscious to rebel against the conventional.But as surrealism is based on idea and not style, it is not the style of the abstract.”Surrealism is still clinging to something in nature and something in man. Surrealist art, no matter how abstract it seems to get, you can often find some kind of image in there, whether it’s exactly logical or not,” said one of the museum’s workers.See the whole story and the incredible artwork in the video above.More from the KETV Archives:’Your heart starts throbbing’: Storm chasers flock to Nebraska during tornado season in 1994In 1994, KETV NewsWatch 7 caught up with some storm chasers, who reflected on past storms as well as why they do what they do.’Look around dead trees’: Thousands walk through Iowa woods hunting for mushrooms in 1986The mushroom hunting season only lasts a few weeks, so thousands of people wandered through the woods in Iowa looking for them in 1986.
The Joslyn Art Museum featured a surrealist art exhibit in 1986, drawing crowds questioning what the pieces meant.
The surrealist movement started during World War I when the horror that was war forced the artist into the subconscious to rebel against the conventional.
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But as surrealism is based on idea and not style, it is not the style of the abstract.
“Surrealism is still clinging to something in nature and something in man. Surrealist art, no matter how abstract it seems to get, you can often find some kind of image in there, whether it’s exactly logical or not,” said one of the museum’s workers.
See the whole story and the incredible artwork in the video above.
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‘Your heart starts throbbing’: Storm chasers flock to Nebraska during tornado season in 1994
In 1994, KETV NewsWatch 7 caught up with some storm chasers, who reflected on past storms as well as why they do what they do.
‘Look around dead trees’: Thousands walk through Iowa woods hunting for mushrooms in 1986
The mushroom hunting season only lasts a few weeks, so thousands of people wandered through the woods in Iowa looking for them in 1986.
