andre breton advocated two routes into the marvelous-- through dreams and automatism. influenced by psychoanalytical theory, breton decreed that subconscious images could only become available if the oppressive control of reason was evaded. the transcription of dreams attracted the so-called "painter" painters such as rene magritte and salvador dali. dali's painting, soft construction with boiled beans-- a premonition of civil war, seems to embody his ambition to visualize images of complete irrationality with incredible precision. through his highly naturalistic style, dali gives a sense of reality to images that are unreal, inspired by nightmares and visions. the second kind of surrealist artist, the painter poet, is exemplified by the sculptor alexander calder and the painters joan miro and max ernst. using poetic techniques of free association, they explored ways of reducing the conscious control of the rational mind. miro's paintings from the twenties, like siesta, seem to have no structure, just a loose, free flow of images which seem to come out of the blue. max