Surrealism Art

Surrealism is an art movement that was developed in the early part of the twentieth-century, primarily in Europe, as a reaction to the First World War and post-industrial revolution rationale that was changing the world. Surrealism began in 1924 with the publication of French poet André Breton’s ‘Surrealist Manifesto’, as a movement that strived to release the power of the unconscious mind, the dream, the irrational, and the irrational part of the dream. This movement was intended to go beyond the framework of the visible reality and brings a new vision of the world. 
 
 Surrealism includes one of the styles of artwork, surreal art, the subjects of which are depicted in a dream-like manner, and often violate basic laws of worldview and physics. These artists of the movement – Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst and others – painted works that made it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality . Their paintings mark the use of surrealistic components such as opposition, preposterity, deformation or the imaginary in which the possible gainsays the impossible. 
 
 An outstanding characteristic of the work of the Surrealists is automatism, which is the creation of a picture by allowing the unconscious to take over from the conscious mind. Its stated purpose was, in fact, to avoid conscious reasoning and to appeal to people’s instincts. Another distinctive characteristic for Surrealists is employment of overload of symbolism and where things are depicted in rather literal sense and yet they are anything but familiar, this turns the tiresome contemplation into inner reflection. 
 
 Surrealism also moreover impacted and included literature, film and theatre and every other form of artistic creations. This movement aimed at liberation of the artists and the writers, urging them to play and experiment with the concepts that were absurd, irrational or mysterious. Thus, they wanted to provide the audience with the ideas of what can be happening in one’s mind, change people’s perceptions of the world and offer the viewers another vision of reality. 
 
 To this day, Surrealism canvas art is actively influencing a wide range of artists and such trends of modern art as postmodernism, explaining various trends in contemporary art, pop culture, and advertising. As with many subcultures that have had such an enormous impact on the popular culture, the enduring focus on imagination and creativity, on exploring the hidden recesses of the psyche is a strong one; the actuality can be far stranger than the fantasy and the rebels and outcasts are right: it’s important to always challenge reality.