An artistic philosophy that took hold in 1920s Paris and spread throughout the world in the decades that followed. André Breton outlined its aims in his Surrealist Manifesto (1924), affirming the supr [..]

1927, from French surréalisme (from sur- "beyond" + réalisme "realism"), according to OED coined c. 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, taken over by Andre Breton as the name of the mov [..]

A literary, intellectual, and artistic movement that began in Paris in 1924 and was active through World War II. Influenced by Sigmund Freud’s writings on psychology, Surrealists, led by André Breton, [..]

Surrealism was a movement which began in the 1920s of writers and artists (including Salvador Dalí and René Magritte), who experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination

An artistic movement doing away with the restrictions of realism and verisimilitude that might be imposed on an artist. In this movement, the artist sought to do away with conscious control and instea [..]

An artistic and literary movement which grew out of Dadaism between 1917 and the 1920s. Influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud, the practitioners explored the world of dreams and the unconscious [..]

 – a literary movement beginning about 1910 where writers wrote automatically rather than with preliminary organizing in an effort to channel inner reality into a writing; followed from a movement in [..]

A movement in art emphasizing imaginative expression as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control; focus on the representation of unconscious processes, the irrational, and juxtaposit [..]

The successor to Dada, influenced by Freud it explored the dreamlike world of the sub-conscious. de Chirico, Dali, Magritte, Nash.

Although the term 'surreal' has (too) often been used merely as a synonym for 'weird', Surrealism is a fully-fledged philosophical movement created by French intellectuals in Paris [..]

(also associated with the avant-garde and dadaism) was initiated in particular by André Breton, whose 1924 "Manifesto of Surrealism" defined the movement's "adherence t [..]

(n) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams

   An artistic style that developed out of Sigmund Freud's writings about the unconscious mind and visions in dreams. Surrealistic artists painted scenes containing recognizable objects from the real world put into shapes and situations in which they could not actually exist or function.

originally an early 1920s artistic movement, now taken to indicate the production of unreal images which defy reason.

A painting style of the early 20th century, it emphasized validity and fascination with images and visions from dreams and fantasies, as well as an intuitive, spontaneous method of recording such imag [..]

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtap [..]

A twentieth century avant-garde movement that originated in the nihilistic ideas of the Dadaist and French literary figures, especially those of its founder, French writer André Breton (1896-1966). At [..]

A painting style of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery and visions from dreams and fantasies, as well as an intuitive, spontaneous method of recording such imagery, often combining unrelat [..]

The Twentieth Century artistic style that uses dreams and fantasy as subject matter.

Defined by Breton as “the process of thought free from the exercise of reason and every aesthetic and moral preoccupation”, this 1924 hallucinatory art movement was a development of the irrational dic [..]

all media. This term refers to the movement founded by French writer André Breton. The aim of the surrealists was to discover the larger reality, or "surreality," that lay beyond tradition. [..]

This is a style that was big in the mid 20th century that was all about the odd and obscure art. The artist would combine other types of art and take them to the extreme of weirdness of the subconscio [..]

Style using imagery from dreams and subconscious, often distorting forms of ordinary objects or placing them in new contexts.

Beginning in 1920s, the Surrealist art movement embraced the element of surprise and unexpected compositions. Working from a Manifesto, the Surrealist artists explored the philosophy of revolution.

Surrealism is a type of art that is based on dreams and fantasy. It takes everyday objects and puts them in unusual situations.

Surrealism is an art movement which originate from France. It first appeared in the early 1920s and conceptualised by its main theorist André Breton. The aim of Surrealism was to resolve the previousl [..]

An early twentieth-century literary and artistic movement that began in Paris. Surrealism aimed to express the workings of the unconscious, free of convention and reason, and was characterized by fant [..]

A movement that begane in the early 1920s empasizing the element of surprise in unexpected juxtaposition of objects, the combination of the real and the unreal, the conscious and the unconscious, as a [..]

A literary and artistic movement founded by the poet André Breton in 1924. Many of the associated artists, such as Max Ernst and Jean Arp, had previously been involved with Dadaism. The movement sought to challenge conventions through the exploration of the subconscious mind, invoking the power of dreams and elements of chance. Traditional artistic [..]

A successor to Dadaism, which began in the 1920's, dedicated to the expression of dreams and the activities of the subconscious mind, through fantastic imagery. The period was influenced greatly by Freud's focus on dreams. Early artists of the period include Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and Rene Magritte (1898-1967). Although the Surrealism [..]

Surrealism attempted to bring messages from the subconscious to the surface with unexpected association of ideas, thus it rejected artistic methods controlled by mind. One of its variants portrayed ab [..]

An artistic and literary movement of the 1920s and '30s, characterized by a fascination with the bizarre, incongruous, and the irrational. Influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of [..]

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, create [..]

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, create [..]