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.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surrealism canonical | 578 |
| surrealism | 21 |
| Surrealist movement | 13 |
| Surrealist automatism | 5 |
| Surrealist literature | 4 |
| European Surrealism | 2 |
| French Surrealism | 2 |
| international surrealist movement | 2 |
| Surrealism (as patron) | 1 |
| Surrealist Period | 1 |
| Surrealist writers | 1 |
| Surrealists | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276017 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surrealism Context triple: [Pablo Picasso, movement, Surrealism]
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A.
Expressionism
Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.
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B.
Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
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C.
Fauvism
Fauvism was an early 20th-century modern art movement characterized by vivid, non-naturalistic colors and bold brushwork, led by artists such as Henri Matisse and André Derain.
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D.
Futurism
Futurism was an early 20th-century avant-garde movement that celebrated speed, technology, and modernity, profoundly shaping the aesthetics of modern art, design, and architecture.
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E.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surrealism Target entity description: 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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A.
Expressionism
Expressionism is an early 20th-century modernist art movement characterized by the intense, subjective distortion of reality to convey emotional experience rather than physical accuracy.
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B.
Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
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C.
Fauvism
Fauvism was an early 20th-century modern art movement characterized by vivid, non-naturalistic colors and bold brushwork, led by artists such as Henri Matisse and André Derain.
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D.
Futurism
Futurism was an early 20th-century avant-garde movement that celebrated speed, technology, and modernity, profoundly shaping the aesthetics of modern art, design, and architecture.
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E.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (135)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
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avant-garde movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| appliesToDiscipline |
design
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fashion ⓘ film ⓘ literature ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ poetry ⓘ sculpture ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Communist Party of France
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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
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interwar period ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfManifesto | André Breton ⓘ |
| hasCenter | Paris ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
anti-bourgeois attitudes
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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
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marvelous ⓘ objective chance ⓘ psychic automatism ⓘ surreality ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | from French surréalisme ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
creation of super-reality
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liberation of the mind ⓘ overthrow of rationalism ⓘ reconciliation of dream and reality ⓘ revolution of everyday life ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
André Breton
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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
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French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
continued influence on contemporary art
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continued influence on contemporary literature ⓘ |
| hasMainFocus |
automatic writing
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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
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collaborative drawing ⓘ decalcomania ⓘ dream transcription ⓘ exquisite corpse ⓘ frottage ⓘ grattage ⓘ paranoiac-critical method ⓘ |
| hasMovementType |
avant-garde
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modern art ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasNotableGroup |
Surrealist Group in Brussels
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Surrealist Group in London ⓘ Surrealist Group in New York ⓘ Surrealist Group in Paris ⓘ Surrealist Group in Prague ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
film L'Age d'Or
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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
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| hasOppositionTo |
bourgeois values
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positivism ⓘ rationalism ⓘ traditional morality ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
La Révolution surréaliste
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Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution ⓘ Minotaur ⓘ
surface form:
Minotaure
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| influenced |
Abstract expressionism
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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
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Giorgio de Chirico ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Marxism
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left-wing ⓘ |
| startTime |
1924
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early 1920s ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Surrealism Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (631)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sidney Janis Gallery
subject surface form:
Philip Guston
subject surface form:
André Breton
subject surface form:
George Morrison (artist)