Surrealism - Wikipedia Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas [1]
Surrealism | Definition, Painting, Artists, Artworks, Facts | Britannica Surrealism, movement in European visual art and literature between the World Wars that was a reaction against cultural and political rationalism Surrealism grew out of the Dada movement, but its emphasis was on positive expression
Surrealism Art Movement: Definition, History, Artists Masterpieces Surrealism is an art movement that sought to unlock the hidden depths of the human mind Emerging in the early 1920s, it rejected rational thought and embraced the strange, the dreamlike, and the unexpected Surrealist artists believed that creativity was most powerful when it flowed directly from the subconscious, and behaved like the subconscious: unfiltered, unrestrained, and free from the
Surrealism Movement Overview | TheArtStory Surrealism shared much of the anti-rationalism of Dada, the movement out of which it grew The original Parisian Surrealists used art as a reprieve from violent political situations and to address the unease they felt about the world's uncertainties
Surrealism Art - A Deep Dive Into the Surrealism Art Movement Surrealism became a formal art movement, with a strong political, philosophical and social undercurrent that defined the methods used to elicit shock and curiosity among its following
Surrealism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early ’20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious
Surrealism - National Gallery of Art Surrealism took shape in 1920s Paris championed by writer André Breton It built on Dada, a World War I–era movement that rejected individual expression in favor of chance and absurdity
Surrealism - MoMA An artistic and literary movement led by French poet and writer André Breton from 1924 through World War II Drawing on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists sought to overthrow what they perceived as the oppressive rationalism of modern society by accessing the sur réalisme (superior reality) of the subconscious