Surrealism

Surrealism is a design movement that was established in Paris in the early 1920s and is highly regarded for its literature and visual artwork. The founder of surrealism was a poet and writer named André Breton who is best known for his surrealist manifesto written in 1924. The Surrealist movement started off in Paris but later grew and spread all over the world also affected various other forms of art including music, visual arts as well as social theory and philosophy. The surrealism movement was greatly inspired by Dadaism, a European art movement of the early 20^th century based on the horrors of World War 1.

The idea of the surrealist art movement was to express the workings of the subconscious and is regarded as fantastic imagery and absurd concurrence of subject matter. Many of the most highly regarded surreal artists such as painter Salvador Dalí often said they painted what they saw in their dreams. Below are some of his more famous pieces of art;

No one has ever had any evidence regarding the end of the surrealist movement or if there ever was an end. Many people suggest that the start of World War 2 saw the movement disband whilst others believe that the death of the founder of surrealism, André Breton in 1966 was the end of the movement.