Look up: surrealism

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   Surrealism
   A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism's emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression. The...
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   Surrealism
   [n] - a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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   surrealism
   Movement in art, literature, and film that developed out of Dada around 1922. Led by AndréBreton, who produced the Surrealist Manifesto (1924), the surrealists were inspired by the thoughts and...
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   surrealism
   Although the term 'surreal' has (too) often been used merely as a synonym for 'weird', Surrealism is a fully-fledged philosophical movement created by French intellectuals in Paris in the 1920s, whose central feature was the exploration and championing of the workings of the unconscious mind. Key Surrealist artists include the writers André Breton ...
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   Surrealism
   Art movement formed in the 1920s around the writer Andre Breton and his followers, whose main interest was Automatism, or the suspension of conscious control in creating art. They preferred things that happened by accident, and dreams, and anything relating to our subconscious. In art this is usually expressed in terms of unusual situations or combinations of things or events which can help to trigger our imagination.
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   Surrealism
   Movement launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet André Breton with publication of his Manifesto of Surrealism. Breton was strongly influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud identified a deep layer of the human mind where memories and our most basic instincts are stored. He called this the unconscious, since ...
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   surrealism
   noun a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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   Surrealism
   `Surrealism` is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur, however many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost with the works being an artifact, and leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion tha...
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   Surrealism
   movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada ... [25 related articles]
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    surrealism
    surrealism 1. An early 20th-century movement in art and literature that tried to represent the subconscious mind by creating fantastic imagery and juxtaposing ideas that seem to contradict each other. 2. Etymology: from French surréalisme; from sur-, 'beyond' + réalisme, 'realism'; coined c.1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, taken over by Andre Breton as the nam...
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    Surrealism
    Spiritualistic trend of art. A recent artistic school representing dreams interpreted according to Freud's theories. -- L.V. Artistic movement which maintains that there exists, and seeks access to, a 'real' world that lies behind the artificial world of ordinary objects given in normal awareness. Argues that what is found on the conscious level ...
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