Surrealism

The art of the unconscious: automatic writing, dream logic, and the collision of impossible images.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1924 – present

region

Paris, then worldwide

key figures

André Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Dalí, Buñuel

exemplar

The Surrealist Manifesto (1924); Nadja (1928)

introduced

1924

Core Principles & Analysis

• Breton's 1924 manifesto defined surrealism as psychic automatism freed from reason.
• It grew from Paris Dada but kept a program where Dada kept only negation.
• Latin American fiction absorbed its methods into what became magical realism.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Surrealism