Surrealism
Unconscious mind movement
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement founded in Paris in the 1920s that sought to channel the unconscious mind through dreamlike imagery, automatic writing, and irrational juxtapositions.
Salvador Dalí's melting clocks and René Magritte's floating bowler hats exemplify Surrealist art: Surrealism rejected rational control in favor of the subconscious. (Lowercase surrealism describes the general style.)
Absurdist artistic rebellion
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- DalíSpanish surrealist painter
Miró · Man Ray · automatism · manifesto · modernism · expressionism · cubism · Paris
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- AragonFormer Iberian kingdom
- cut-upHabitual joker or clown
free association · irrational · nonsense · dreamlike · prose poetry · manifesto · chance · symbolic
Adjacent contrasting placement
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
- distortionTwisting from original state
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- illogicalContrary to valid reasoning
biomorphic · trompe-l'oeil · uncanny · symbolic · hallucinatory · fantastical · bizarre · grotesque
Founder of psychoanalysis
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- free associationUnfiltered verbal thought flow
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- desireIntense wanting
libido · id · ego · symbolism · dreamwork · latent · manifest · interpretation
Involuntary sleep visions
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- desireIntense wanting
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- sexualityErotic nature and preferences
madness · liberation · revolution · chance · irrationality · imagination · mystery · transformation
Dada
Absurdist artistic rebellion
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
Dalí · Miró · Man Ray · automatism · manifesto · modernism · expressionism · cubism · Paris · collage
automatism
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- AragonFormer Iberian kingdom
cut-up · free association · irrational · nonsense · dreamlike · prose poetry · manifesto · chance · symbolic · subconscious
juxtaposition
Adjacent contrasting placement
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
- distortionTwisting from original state
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
illogical · biomorphic · trompe-l'oeil · uncanny · symbolic · hallucinatory · fantastical · bizarre · grotesque · hybrid
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- free associationUnfiltered verbal thought flow
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
desire · libido · id · ego · symbolism · dreamwork · latent · manifest · interpretation · projection
dreams
Involuntary sleep visions
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- desireIntense wanting
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
sexuality · madness · liberation · revolution · chance · irrationality · imagination · mystery · transformation · anxiety
pomegranate
Many-seeded red fruit
ants · biomorphic · dislocation · hybrid creatures · keyhole
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Cubism
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
SurrealismRealism
Movement depicting ordinary life
mimesis · kitchen sink realism · verisimilitude · Hyperrealism · documentary photography
Surrealismlogic
Science of valid reasoning
reason · scientific method · empiricism · positivism · formalism
- surrealist movementArt rejecting rational reality
- surrealist imageryIllogical visual compositions
- surrealist filmMovie rejecting conventional narrative
surrealist, surrealistic, surrealists, surreality, surrealistically