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Surrealism
- Surrealism originated in the late 1910's and early 1920's
- It is a literary and art movement
- It was created to express the imagination and free the conscious mind of control and reason
- Its origins can be traced back to French poets such as Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire
- Their poetry drew from the private parts of the mind and created surprising and unexpected imagery
- They were no longer restricted by traditional reasons and expectations
- It was offically founded in Paris in 1924
- The manifesto of surrealism by the poet Andre Breton
- Surrealism became a political and international movement
- Artists who first worked on the Surrealism art movement Max Ernst, Andre Masson and Man Ray
- In 1927 artist Rene Magritte moved to Paris and became a leading figure in the Surrealist movement
- Magritte painted erotic and explicit objects in unsusal positions and in dreamlike surroundings
- Magritte's work was a distinctive split between the visual atomatism created by Masson and the new
form of illusionistic surrealism by Salvador Dali
- His painting "The Eternally Obvious" was highly thought provoking and shocking
- In 1929 Dali moved to Paris also to create his first Surrealist paintings
- He expanded on Magritte's dream of surrealism but added his own visions and ideas
- Brenton praised Dali's representations of the unconscious mind in his second manifesto of surrealism
- They later both became collaborators on the
Minotaure a mainly surrealist publication in Paris
- The Accommodations of Desire painted by Dali in 1929 was to symbolize his own desires
- The surrealist movement began to come to an end as World War One approached
- Breton, Ernst, Masson and Dali all left Europe for New York
- The movement found some renewal in American
- Surrealism's imagery, symbolism, refined techniques and rebellion against the traditional has influenced many other artists
- Artists including Joseph Cornell and Arshile Gorky's work clearly takes influence from the surrealist movement
- Surrealism's impact on the art world can still be seen today in modern advertising