Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in …

Oct 2, 2025 · Surrealism, movement in European visual art and literature between the World Wars that was a reaction against cultural and political rationalism. Surrealism grew out of the Dada …

Nov 14, 2025 · Surrealism is an art movement that sought to unlock the hidden depths of the human mind. Emerging in the early 1920s, it rejected rational thought and embraced the …

Surrealism shared much of the anti-rationalism of Dada, the movement out of which it grew. The original Parisian Surrealists used art as a reprieve from violent political situations and to …

May 10, 2021 · Surrealism became a formal art movement, with a strong political, philosophical and social undercurrent that defined the methods used to elicit shock and curiosity among its …

Sep 13, 2017 · Surrealism is an artistic movement that has had a lasting impact on painting, sculpture, literature, photography and film.

Oct 1, 2004 · Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early ’20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which …

Surrealism took shape in 1920s Paris championed by writer André Breton. It built on Dada, a World War I–era movement that rejected individual expression in favor of chance and absurdity.

Drawing on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists sought to overthrow what they perceived as the oppressive rationalism of modern society by accessing the sur …

Surrealism was an artistic movement and literary movement that utilized fantasy, myth, and dream imagery within artwork. Surrealism emerged in Europe in the 1920s as a reaction to the …