Surrealism 
               Surrealism was a way in art to contrast reality with dreams. Artists painted strange things that seemed very illogical the scenes created were strange creatures made of everyday objects. Surrealism expresses emotions that don’t even make sense. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, but many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement with the works of being an artifact.

            Surrealism began in the early 1920s in Paris. It was a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression, which sought out to release the unbridled imagination of subconscious artist and people. Surrealism became an intellectual and political movement. The surrealist movement of visual arts and literature flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. It had an emphasis on positive expression. The movement was a reaction against rationalism that guided European culture and politics in the past horrors of World War I.

            The first appearance of surrealism was in the preface to Guillaume Apolinaire’s play in 1917. He coined the word surrealist. There are many important surrealist artists that have added their own spontaneity and randomness to their work making it special. Some of those people are Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, and Joan Miró. Surrealism is a very unique way for people to express themselves without anyone being able to understand it but still is very interesting to look at and admire, because it is out of this world.




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