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07 Apr 15
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
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aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality
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unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept
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18 Mar 15
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Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.[15]
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18 Nov 14
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Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects
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Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement
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11 Nov 14
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the real functioning of thought
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thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
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previously neglected associations
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19 Aug 14
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created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept
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23 Jun 14
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resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality
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allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept
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element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur
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Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.
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automatic writing—spontaneously writing without censoring their thoughts
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26 Apr 14
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- Entr'acte by René Clair (1924)
- La Coquille et le clergyman by Germaine Dulac, screenplay by Antonin Artaud (1928)
- L'Étoile de mer by Man Ray (1928)
- Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (1929)
- L'Âge d'Or by Buñuel and Dalí (1930)
- Le sang d'un poète by Jean Cocteau (1930)
- L’imitation du cinema by Marcel Mariën (1959)
Surrealist films[edit]
Main article: Surrealist cinemaEarly films by Surrealists include:
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04 Apr 14
Steven JosselsonSurrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality. via Pocket
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17 Nov 13
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10 Oct 13
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17 Jul 13
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The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."
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developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself
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Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement
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Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities
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Dada, believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war upon the world
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they came to believe that automatism was a better tactic for societal change than the Dada attack on prevailing values
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advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination according to the Hegelian Dialectic.
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Freud's work with free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious was of utmost importance to the Surrealists in developing methods to liberate imagination
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juxtapositions
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uxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be -- the greater its emotional power and poetic reality
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They wanted to free people from false rationality, and restrictive customs and structures.
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29 Apr 13
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Dalí supported capitalism and the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco but cannot be said to represent a trend in Surrealism in this respect; in fact he was considered, by Breton and his associates, to have betrayed and left Surrealism.
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Surrealists have often sought to link their efforts with political ideals and activities
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19 Jun 12
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30 May 12
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
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visual artworks and writings
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element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur
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Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement
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most important center of the movement was Paris
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Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I
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18 May 12
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Back in Paris, Breton joined in Dada activities and started the literary journal Littérature along with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault. They began experimenting with automatic writing—spontaneously writing without censoring their thoughts—and published the writings, as well as accounts of dreams, in the magazine. Breton and Soupault delved deeper into automatism and wrote The Magnetic Fields (1920).
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they came to believe that automatism was a better tactic for societal change than the Dada attack on prevailing values.
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As they developed their philosophy, they believed that Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination according to the Hegelian Dialectic. They also looked to the Marxist dialectic and the work of such theorists as Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse.
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Beside the use of dream analysis, they emphasized that "one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects."[4] Breton included the idea of the startling juxtapositions in his 1924 manifesto,
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creative acts of revolt and efforts to liberate imagination
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30 Apr 12
Avery Walkerwikipedia
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The word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917
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The Magnetic Fields (1920).
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29 Apr 12
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early 1920s
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feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur;
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12 Jan 12
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As they developed their philosophy, they believed that Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination according to the Hegelian Dialectic.
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19 Jul 11
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14 Feb 11
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they believed that Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination
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developing methods to liberate imagination.
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one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects
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18 Oct 10
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12 Oct 10
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
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Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
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Breton wrote the manifesto of 1924 that defines the purposes of the group. He included citations of the influences on Surrealism, examples of Surrealist works and discussion of Surrealist automatism. He defined Surrealism as:
Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life. -
Breton initially doubted that visual arts could even be useful in the Surrealist movement since they appeared to be less malleable and open to chance and automatism. This caution was overcome by the discovery of such techniques as frottage and decalcomania.
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25 Mar 09
Amira .Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement. -
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jpvanarnhema cultural, social and political movement asserting that liberation of the human mind, and subsequent liberation of the individual and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" to the attainment of a dream-
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04 Dec 06
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T he truest aspects of Surrealism in film are often found in passing frames of a larger film; the sudden emergence of the uncanny into the "normal" which may or may not be further explored in the rest of the film. The original group spent hours going from film to film, often not finishing one before seeking another, partly in hopes of catching just suc >h ephemeral > moments, and partly with the idea of "stitching together" a film in their own minds out of the disparate parts. >
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Terry Gilliam > is considered a Surrealist filmmaker, with > his films such as Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys and The Fisher King.
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17 Sep 06
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The roots of Surrealism in the visual arts run to both Dada and Cubism, as well as the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky and Expressionism, as well as Post-Impressionism. However, it was not the particulars of technique which marked the Surrealist movement in the visual arts, but the creation of objects from the imagination, from automatism, or from a number of Surrealist techniques.
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The characteristics of this style: a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the psychological, came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modern period, combined with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be "made whole with ones individuality".
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Masson's automatic drawings of 1923, are often used as a convenient point of difference, since these reflect the influence of the idea of the unconscious mind.
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31 Jul 06
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