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Surrealism Art Movement: A Window into the Mind
Surrealism art emerged in Europe in the 1920s as a form of artistic and cultural rebellion. It rejected aesthetic expectations instead of using artistic expression as a way to reach greater self-understanding. This created a monumental shift for society and how it interacts with art. Today, Surrealism art remains one of the most recognizable styles in modern art history. This article outlines the history and ideology of Surrealist artists and their famous works of the period.
Surrealism Art: Dada Roots
Surrealism was born out of the Dada art movement which developed after World War I in Zurich, New York and Paris. Dadaism was a divergence from any precedent art forms or ideologies. It challenged traditional aesthetics, ‘high art,’ and beauty.
Dadaists utilized a variety of mediums and techniques in their art. They span from sounds to writing, sculpture, painting and collage. Their work expressed disaffection with bourgeois culture, nationalism and war, which aligned them with the radical political far-left. They sought
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SURREALISM IN MEXICO
LEAFING THROUGH A BOOK ON ancient Mexico, or strolling through the Museo Nacional de Antropología y Historia in Mexico City, one is immediately convinced, as was André Breton, that Mexico has always been the most innately surrealist of countries. Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec sculptures, and frescoes from different periods in Mexican history, repeatedly show images such as plumed coyotes, men with the shells of turtles, dogs wearing human masks, jaguars in scarves, arum flowers whose pistils are tiny men, geometrically shaped gods with large noses, and so on. All this is depicted with great freedom, whether realistically or with the maximum stylization. During the time since Hernán Cortés brought what we, surely in error, call “civilization” to Mexico, in 1519, this natural sense of the marvelous could well have disappeared. Not at all: the marvelous is tenacious when it is so deeply rooted, manifesting itself ubiquitously in popular art, and in the traditional Mexican festivals, which demonstrate an altogether different
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André Breton
French co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
For the Quebec-born singer, see André Breton (singer). For the French publisher, see André le Breton.
André Breton | |
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Breton in 1924 | |
| Born | André Robert Breton (1896-02-19)19 February 1896 Tinchebray, France |
| Died | 28 September 1966(1966-09-28) (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Poetry, essays, novels, aesthetics |
| Literary movement | Surrealism |
| Notable works | |
| Spouse | Simone Kahn (m. 1921; div. 1931)Jacqueline Lamba (m. 1934; div. 1943)Elisa Bindhoff Enet (m. 1945–1966) |
| Children | 1 |
André Robert Breton (;[1]French:[ɑ̃dʁeʁɔbɛʁbʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.[2] His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du
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