Surrealism

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art movement avant-garde movement cultural movement literary movement

Surrealism is a 20th-century artistic and literary movement that sought to unlock the unconscious mind and depict dreamlike, illogical scenes to challenge rational thought and conventional reality.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art movement → avant-garde movement → cultural movement → literary movement →
appliesToDiscipline	design → fashion → film → literature → painting → photography → poetry → sculpture → theatre →
associatedWith	French Communist Party → Trotskyism → anarchism →
coinedBy	Guillaume Apollinaire →
countryOfOrigin	France →
endTime	late 1960s →
foundedBy	André Breton →
hasArtHistoricalContext	between World War I and World War II → interwar period →
hasAuthorOfManifesto	André Breton →
hasCenter	Paris →
hasCharacteristic	anti-bourgeois attitudes → automatism → collage → decalcomania → distorted reality → dreamlike scenes → exploration of taboo subjects → froissage → frottage → grattage → illogical compositions → paranoiac-critical method → political radicalism → symbolic imagery → unexpected juxtapositions → use of chance →
hasConcept	convulsive beauty → marvelous → objective chance → psychic automatism → surreality →
hasEtymology	from French surréalisme →
hasGoal	creation of super-reality → liberation of the mind → overthrow of rationalism → reconciliation of dream and reality → revolution of everyday life →
hasKeyFigure	André Breton → Benjamin Péret → Dorothea Tanning → Francis Picabia → Giorgio de Chirico → Hans Arp → Joan Miró → Leonora Carrington → Louis Aragon → Luis Buñuel → Man Ray → Max Ernst → Paul Éluard → Philippe Soupault → René Magritte → Robert Desnos → Salvador Dalí → Tristan Tzara → Yves Tanguy →
hasLanguage	English → French → Spanish →
hasLegacy	continued influence on contemporary art → continued influence on contemporary literature →
hasMainFocus	automatic writing → chance operations → dream imagery → exploration of dreams → free association → irrationality → juxtaposition of unexpected elements → psychic automatism → subversion of rational thought → unconscious mind →
hasManifesto	Surrealist Manifesto →
hasMethod	automatic writing → collaborative drawing → decalcomania → dream transcription → exquisite corpse → frottage → grattage → paranoiac-critical method →
hasMovementType	avant-garde → modern art → modernist literature →
hasNotableGroup	Surrealist Group in Brussels → Surrealist Group in London → Surrealist Group in New York → Surrealist Group in Paris → Surrealist Group in Prague →
hasNotableWork	L'Âge d'Or → The Elephant Celebes → The Lovers → The Persistence of Memory → The Son of Man → The Treachery of Images → Un Chien Andalou →
hasOppositionTo	bourgeois values → positivism → rationalism → traditional morality →
hasPublication	La Révolution surréaliste → Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution → Minotaure →
influenced	Abstract Expressionism → Beat Generation → Latin American literature → Magic Realism → Magic realist literature → Pop Art → Postmodernism → Psychedelic art →
influencedBy	Dada → Giorgio de Chirico → Romanticism → Sigmund Freud → Symbolism → psychoanalysis →
politicalAlignment	Marxism → left-wing →
startTime	1924 → early 1920s →
timePeriod	20th century →

Referenced by (74)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Arshile Gorky → Christ of Saint John of the Cross → Dora Maar → Dora Maar au Chat → Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening → Gala Dalí → Galatea of the Spheres → Joan Miró → L'Age d'Or ("surrealism") → Large Glass → Lobster Telephone → Luis Buñuel → Marc Chagall → Marcel Duchamp → Metamorphosis of Narcissus → Pablo Neruda → Pablo Picasso → Paul Klee → Salvador Dalí → Salvador Dalí → Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) → Swans Reflecting Elephants → The Burning Giraffe → The Elephants → The Great Masturbator → The Hallucinogenic Toreador → The Persistence of Memory → The Temptation of St. Anthony → Un Chien Andalou → paranoiac-critical method →	movement
Abstract expressionism → Action painting → Alejo Carpentier → Arshile Gorky → Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) → Barnett Newman → Barry Humphries ("surrealism") → Beat Generation → COBRA movement → Dora Maar ("Surrealist movement") → Dora Maar au Chat → Henri Cartier-Bresson → Jackson Pollock → Joan Miró ("Surrealist automatism") → Lee Krasner → Mark Rothko → Mural (1943) → No. 5, 1948 → Nouveau Réalisme → Pop art → Rafael Montañez Ortiz → Tarantula ("surrealism") →	influencedBy
Arthur Rimbaud ("Surrealists") → Caspar David Friedrich → Dada → Lewis Carroll ("surrealism") → Marquis de Sade ("surrealism") → Oceanic art → Odilon Redon → Symbolist movement in art →	influenced
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening → Lobster Telephone → Metamorphosis of Narcissus → Swans Reflecting Elephants → The Great Masturbator → Un Chien Andalou →	genre
Gala Dalí ("Surrealist movement") → Modernism →	associatedWith
Marquess of Dalí de Púbol →	associatedWithArtMovement
Symbolism →	hasInfluenceOn
Left Bank of the Seine →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Pablo Picasso ("Surrealist Period") →	period
Expressionism →	relatedMovement
paranoiac-critical method ("Surrealist automatism") →	relatedTo