tags: #publish links: [[Art]] created: 2020-09-16 Wed related: [[Modernism]], [[Dadaism]] --- # Surrealism From *superreality*. An art and literature movement involving juxtaposition of uncommon imagery. Unnerving, weird, illogical. Beginning in the 1920s, mostly Paris. Influenced by [[Dadaism]] and involved some of the same people. "psychic automatism" to express the real functioning of thought, outside of reason of aesthetic aand moral preoccupation. *The omnipotence of dream, the disinterested play of thought.* > *to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or surreality* \- André Breton ## Surrealist Artists André Breton Guillaume Apollinaire Max Ernst Salvador Dalí Luis Buñuel Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Yves Tanguy