Surrealism

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Surrealism is a 20th-century artistic and literary movement that sought to unlock the unconscious mind and depict dreamlike, illogical scenes to challenge rational thought and conventional reality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement ⓘ
avant-garde movement ⓘ
cultural movement ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
appliesToDiscipline design ⓘ
fashion ⓘ
film ⓘ
literature ⓘ
painting ⓘ
photography ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
associatedWith French Communist Party ⓘ
Trotskyism ⓘ
anarchism ⓘ
coinedBy Guillaume Apollinaire ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
endTime late 1960s ⓘ
foundedBy André Breton ⓘ
hasArtHistoricalContext between World War I and World War II ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
hasAuthorOfManifesto André Breton ⓘ
hasCenter Paris ⓘ
hasCharacteristic anti-bourgeois attitudes ⓘ
automatism ⓘ
collage ⓘ
decalcomania ⓘ
distorted reality ⓘ
dreamlike scenes ⓘ
exploration of taboo subjects ⓘ
froissage ⓘ
frottage ⓘ
grattage ⓘ
illogical compositions ⓘ
paranoiac-critical method ⓘ
political radicalism ⓘ
symbolic imagery ⓘ
unexpected juxtapositions ⓘ
use of chance ⓘ
hasConcept convulsive beauty ⓘ
marvelous ⓘ
objective chance ⓘ
psychic automatism ⓘ
surreality ⓘ
hasEtymology from French surréalisme ⓘ
hasGoal creation of super-reality ⓘ
liberation of the mind ⓘ
overthrow of rationalism ⓘ
reconciliation of dream and reality ⓘ
revolution of everyday life ⓘ
hasKeyFigure André Breton ⓘ
Benjamin Péret ⓘ
Dorothea Tanning ⓘ
Francis Picabia ⓘ
Giorgio de Chirico ⓘ
Hans Arp ⓘ
Joan Miró ⓘ
Leonora Carrington ⓘ
Louis Aragon ⓘ
Luis Buñuel ⓘ
Man Ray ⓘ
Max Ernst ⓘ
Paul Éluard ⓘ
Philippe Soupault ⓘ
René Magritte ⓘ
Robert Desnos ⓘ
Salvador Dalí ⓘ
Tristan Tzara ⓘ
Yves Tanguy ⓘ
hasLanguage English ⓘ
French ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
hasLegacy continued influence on contemporary art ⓘ
continued influence on contemporary literature ⓘ
hasMainFocus automatic writing ⓘ
chance operations ⓘ
dream imagery ⓘ
exploration of dreams ⓘ
free association ⓘ
irrationality ⓘ
juxtaposition of unexpected elements ⓘ
psychic automatism ⓘ
subversion of rational thought ⓘ
unconscious mind ⓘ
hasManifesto Surrealist Manifesto ⓘ
hasMethod automatic writing ⓘ
collaborative drawing ⓘ
decalcomania ⓘ
dream transcription ⓘ
exquisite corpse ⓘ
frottage ⓘ
grattage ⓘ
paranoiac-critical method ⓘ
hasMovementType avant-garde ⓘ
modern art ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ
hasNotableGroup Surrealist Group in Brussels ⓘ
Surrealist Group in London ⓘ
Surrealist Group in New York ⓘ
Surrealist Group in Paris ⓘ
Surrealist Group in Prague ⓘ
hasNotableWork L'Âge d'Or ⓘ
linked to: film L'Age d'Or

The Elephant Celebes ⓘ
The Lovers ⓘ
The Persistence of Memory ⓘ
The Son of Man ⓘ
The Treachery of Images ⓘ
Un Chien Andalou ⓘ
hasOppositionTo bourgeois values ⓘ
positivism ⓘ
rationalism ⓘ
traditional morality ⓘ
hasPublication La Révolution surréaliste ⓘ
Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution ⓘ
Minotaure ⓘ
linked to: Minotaur
influenced Abstract Expressionism ⓘ
Beat Generation ⓘ
Latin American literature ⓘ
Magic Realism ⓘ
linked to: magical realism

Magic realist literature ⓘ
Pop Art ⓘ
linked to: Pop art

Postmodernism ⓘ
Psychedelic art ⓘ
influencedBy Dada ⓘ
Giorgio de Chirico ⓘ
Romanticism ⓘ
Sigmund Freud ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ
psychoanalysis ⓘ
politicalAlignment Marxism ⓘ
left-wing ⓘ
startTime 1924 ⓘ
early 1920s ⓘ
timePeriod 20th century ⓘ

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Pablo Picasso → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Pablo Picasso → period → Surrealist Period ⓘ
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Salvador Dalí → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Jackson Pollock → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Modernism → associatedWith → Surrealism ⓘ
Beat Generation → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Symbolism → hasInfluenceOn → Surrealism ⓘ
Expressionism → relatedMovement → Surrealism ⓘ
Tarantula → influencedBy → surrealism ⓘ
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Pop art → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Mark Rothko → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Barnett Newman → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Lee Krasner → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Arshile Gorky → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Arshile Gorky → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Alejo Carpentier → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Odilon Redon → influenced → Surrealism ⓘ
Dora Maar au Chat → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Dora Maar au Chat → influencedBy → Surrealism ⓘ
Marcel Duchamp → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Paul Klee → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Dora Maar → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Dora Maar → influencedBy → Surrealist movement ⓘ
linked to: Surrealism
The Great Masturbator → genre → Surrealism ⓘ
The Great Masturbator → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
The Elephants → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Metamorphosis of Narcissus → genre → Surrealism ⓘ
Lobster Telephone → genre → Surrealism ⓘ
Lobster Telephone → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Galatea of the Spheres → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
paranoiac-critical method → relatedTo → Surrealist automatism ⓘ
linked to: Surrealism
Luis Buñuel → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
Un Chien Andalou → genre → Surrealism ⓘ
subject linked to: film Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou → movement → Surrealism ⓘ
subject linked to: film Un Chien Andalou
Swans Reflecting Elephants → genre → Surrealism ⓘ
The Burning Giraffe → movement → Surrealism ⓘ