One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is its ability to defamiliarize: to create something unique, unexpected and unfamiliar from one's everyday surroundings in order to surprise, shock and disturb. Surrealism invites us into a world where even the most seemingly insignificant occurrences of everyday life can be made strange.

With this year's exhibit, we invite the students to explore the "Strangely Familiar" by employing techniques used by the Surrealists such as: Dislocation, Juxtaposition, and Transformation/Metamorphosis.

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Featuring a selection of works spanning over 60 years, Dalí in Color reveals various methods in which the artist worked with colored media on paper. This exhibition includes works completed for competition, studies for possible publications, a rare example of his work with pastel, conversions of pre-existing images, studies for monumental canvases, and spontaneous experimentation with powdered pigments. Additionally, there are works created for advertisements, costume and furniture designs, and elaborate festivals.

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Beginning Monday, October 1, 2012, the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which holds the largest collection of Dali in the Americas, will welcome twelve important Dali works on loan from the National Collection of Modern Art in Spain - Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. This selection of paintings will expand our knowledge of Dali's diverse production of art. The Royal Inheritance, paintings which came to the Kingdom of Spain as heir to Dali's estate, will present works that have never been on view in America before, including still lifes, the stunning stereoscopic work Las Meninas, portraits of his wife, Gala, and later works with a mathematical theme. The exhibition is co-curated by the Dali Museum's senior curators Joan Kropf and William Jeffett.

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Guest Curator Stacy Engman asked today's most dynamic artists to submit new works based on the Tarot. The result is an amazing collection of seventy-eight must-see magical works of art. A variety of artists were commissioned including Ultra Violet, Andres Serrano, Francesco Vezzoli, Nan Goldin, and designers Christian Louboutin, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs and Vivienne Westwood.

Stacy Engman is Chief contemporary curator to the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, New York City. This exhibition consists of the original artworks on paper; sized 7 x 10 inches (17.78 cm x 25.4 cm).

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