Surrealism

Surrealism a literary and artistic movement that emerged in France from Dadaism, during the first quarter of the century starting with the poet André Breton. He sought to discover a truth with his writings, without rational corrections, using images to express his emotions, but never followed a logical reasoning.Surrealism as an artistic movement emerged between 1920 and 1930. Its official appearance was in 1924 with the drafting of "The Surrealist Manifesto" by the French poet and critic André Breton. At first this was a literary and philosophical movement but painters soon join him.

Surrealism emerged from the Dada movement, which reflected both art and literature a nihilistic protest against all aspects of Western culture. Like Dadaism, surrealism emphasized the role of the unconscious in creative activity, but used a much more orderly and serious manner. Surrealism, is the desire to express the world of the unconscious as the dark world that few know about.Like many people, artists were frustrated with the poor conditions in which Europe found itself at the end of World War II, which is why they sought inspiration not in reality but in dreams and fantasies.The emergence of psychoanalysis, created by German psychologist Sigmund Freud, greatly influenced the development of this artistic movement because it puts a special emphasis on the unconscious man. The artist was no longer content to go to the structure of things or movement; They wanted to see the reality that lurks beneath consciousness.

The surreal world can be described as chaotic, absurd and irrational. It is the externalization of the interior, without rational control and without moral or aesthetic obstacles.