Surrealism
By Andrew Lemmon
Definition
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Surrealism is a movement stating that the
liberation of our mind, and subsequently
the liberation of the individual self and
society, can be achieved by exercising the
imaginative faculties of the "unconscious
mind" to the attainment of a dream-like
state different from, or ultimately ‘truer’
than, everyday reality.
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Source: www.wikipedia.org
The history
Surrealism finds its beginnings with Dada
and Cubism.
 Hopes to inflame human emotion via
images.
 In the 1930’s, Dali and Magritte became
famous.
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Example of Dali
Dali’s The Persistence of Memory - 1931
Development of Surrealism
WWII was damaging to the movement, but
artists still continued to explore new
techniques.
 American artists such as Mark Rothko
took an interest in Surrealist techniques.
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The Philosophy
Adherents to Surrealism thought that the
antidote to the horrors of WWI such as the
Industrial Revolution was the irrational
dream-state of surrealism.
Surrealism tends to be fanciful and
imaginitive.