surrealists
Bizarre imagery creators
Surrealists are artists and writers who embrace the irrational, the dreamlike, and the unconscious mind.
The movement emerged in 1920s Paris, producing work that juxtaposed bizarre imagery and defied logic: melting clocks, floating bowlers, automatic writing.
More loosely, surrealist describes anyone whose work or thinking ventures into the strange and dreamlike: The film has a surrealist quality that's hard to shake.
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- frottageTexture impression method
- decalcomaniaImage transfer technique
- photomontageCombined image artwork
Founder of psychoanalysis
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
dreams · free association · libido · desire · neurosis · psyche · archetype · symbolism
Absurdist artistic movement
- automatismInvoluntary mechanical behavior
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
futurism · symbolism · conceptualism · abstract expressionism · collage · frottage · decalcomania
Spanish surrealist painter
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- Man RayAvant-garde photographer, Dadaist
- MiróSurrealist painter from Spain
Carrington · Giacometti · Dalí
Not awake or aware
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- phantasmagoricBizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
fantastical · chimerical · metamorphosis · juxtaposition · dislocation · uncanny · illusory · absurdist
automatism
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- frottageTexture impression method
- decalcomaniaImage transfer technique
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
ego · dreams · free association · libido · desire · neurosis · psyche · archetype · symbolism · automatism
dadaism
Absurdist artistic movement
- automatismInvoluntary mechanical behavior
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
modernism · futurism · symbolism · conceptualism · abstract expressionism · collage · frottage · decalcomania
Dalí
Spanish surrealist painter
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- Man RayAvant-garde photographer, Dadaist
Miró · Carrington · Giacometti · Dalí
unconscious
Not awake or aware
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- phantasmagoricBizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
otherworldly · fantastical · chimerical · metamorphosis · juxtaposition · dislocation · uncanny · illusory · absurdist · irrational
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Cubism
- Paris literatiwriters, poets, authors, novelists, essayists
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- innovatorsinnovator, innovators, inventor, pioneers, pioneer
surrealistsrealists
Those accepting things as-is
photorealists · naturalists · hyperrealists · documentary photographers · neoclassicists
surrealistsclassicists
Scholars of antiquity
minimalists · formalists · Mondrian · constructivists · purists
- surrealist movementArt rejecting rational reality
- surrealist imageryIllogical visual compositions
- surrealist filmMovie rejecting conventional narrative