Surrealism

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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 Communist Party of France
surface form: 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 film L'Age d'Or
surface form: L'Âge d'Or

The Elephant Celebes
The Lovers
The Persistence of Memory
The Son of Man
The Treachery of Images
film Un Chien Andalou
surface form: Un Chien Andalou
hasOppositionTo bourgeois values
positivism
rationalism
traditional morality
hasPublication La Révolution surréaliste
Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution
Minotaur
surface form: Minotaure
influenced Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

Beat Generation
Latin American literature
magical realism
surface form: Magic Realism

Magic realist literature
Pop art
surface form: 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

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poem Metamorphosis of Narcissus literaryMovement Surrealism
subject surface form: Metamorphosis of Narcissus (poem)
Edward James movement Surrealism
Edward James patronOf Surrealism
this entity surface form: Surrealist movement
Edward James influencedBy Surrealism
Mae West Room hasArtMovement Surrealism
Rainy Taxi installation movement Surrealism
The Basket of Bread movement Surrealism
Galarina movement Surrealism
Leda Atomica movement Surrealism
An Andalusian Dog movement Surrealism
this entity surface form: surrealism
Woman II influencedBy Surrealism
Woman III influencedBy Surrealism
Excavation influencedBy Surrealism
The Farm movement Surrealism
Harlequin's Carnival movement Surrealism
Dog Barking at the Moon genre Surrealism
Dog Barking at the Moon movement Surrealism
Constellations series movement Surrealism
Woman and Bird hasStyle Surrealism
Woman and Bird movement Surrealism
Blue I movement Surrealism
Blue I influencedBy Surrealism
this entity surface form: Surrealist automatism
Blue II movement Surrealism
Blue III movement Surrealism
Blue III influencedBy Surrealism
Blue III creatorMovement Surrealism
John Altoon movement Surrealism
Portlligat Bay associatedWith Surrealism
Simone Mareuil movementAssociatedWith Surrealism
this entity surface form: surrealism
Boris Vian movement Surrealism
The Tilled Field genre Surrealism
The Tilled Field movement Surrealism
Negritude influencedBy Surrealism
Carrington movement Surrealism
subject surface form: Leonora Carrington
Cy Twombly influencedBy Surrealism