Question

Which best describes the style of Salaverria's sculpture of a woman with a building rising out of her head?

A. modernism
B. indigenismo
C. surrealism
D. classicism

Answer 1

C. surrealism, I had this one on my Spanish assessment ;)

Answer 2

Enrique Salaverria was a famous sculptor from El Salvador. The study of the human figure, and especially the feminine has been a constant for his sculptural work. He started working sculpture in the late 50`s. His sculpture of a woman with a building rising out of her head was surrealism. Surrrealism grew out of the earlier Dada movement. It was flourishing between the First and the Second World War. Surrealist artists were interested in a world of dreams, desire and imagination. Answer: C ) Surrealism.