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  1. 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 principa...
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  2. 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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  3. surrealism
    Movement in art, literature, and film that developed out of Dada around 1922. Led by André
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  4. 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 Su...
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  5. 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 usuall...
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  6. 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...
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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 ...
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  1. Surrealism
    Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers{Who|date=June 2011} regard their work a...
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  2. 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. A...
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  3. Surrealism
    Based in the Paris avante-garde movement of the 1920s, surrealistic films contend with issues like death, dream states, sexual desires, cruelty and shock. Juxtapositions of random images are often filmed in non-sequential displays thus opposing the bureaucracy of the bourgeoisie mentality
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  4. surrealism
    Movement in art, literature, and film that developed out of Dada around 1922. Led by André Breton, who produced the Surrealist Manifesto (1924), the surrealists were inspired by the thoughts and visions of the subconscious mind. They explored varied styles and techniques, and the movement be...
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  5. Surrealism
    A twentieth century avant-garde movement that originated in the nihilistic ideas of the Dadaist and French literary figures, especially those of its founder, French writer André Breton (1896-1966). At first a Dadaist, he wrote three manifestos about Surrealism-- in 1924, 1930, and 1934, and opened ...
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  6. SURREALISM
    A painting style of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery and visions from dreams and fantasies, as well as an intuitive, spontaneous method of recording such imagery, often combining unrelated or unexpected objects in compositions .
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  7. Surrealism
    A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. Magritte, Dali, Miro, and Ernst painted surrealist works.
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  8. Surrealism
    A movement in painting popular in the 1930s, concerned with the world of dreams. It was vaguely funded on the ideas of the psychoanalyst Freud.
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  9. surrealism
    1) Art movement 2) Artistic movement
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