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A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images,
  1. A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images

  1. 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
  2. (surrealist) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism
  3. (surrealistic) phantasmagoric: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
  4. 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.
  5. Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor Adorno, Max Paddison (1993, 90) defines surrealist music as that which "juxtaposes its historically devalued fragments in a montage-like manner which enables them to yield up new ...
  6. An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious
  7. (surrealistic) Describing something that is surreal
  8. A twist on Realism. It explores the subconscious mind, with subject matters concentrating on dream-images and often aims to distort the ordinary and what we call reality.
  9. Beginning in 1920s, the Surrealist art movement embraced the element of surprise and unexpected compositions. Working from a Manifesto, the Surrealist artists explored the philosophy of revolution.
  10. Style using imagery from dreams and the subconscious, often distorting forms of ordinary objects or placing them in new contexts.
  11. an art style developed in Europe in the 1920's, characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. ...
  12. The Twentieth Century artistic style that uses dreams and fantasy as subject matter.
  13. A type of painting of the 20th Century where almost photographic realism is achieved.  Sometimes the realism is combined with the fantastic through strangely related subject materials and mysterious light-source treatment; creating metaphysical effects reminiscent of de Chirico and others. ...
  14. A movement in literature and the visual arts that developed in the mid1920s and remained strong until the mid1940s, growing out of Dada and automatism. ...
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  16. 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. ...
  17. A term introduced to criticism by Guillaume Apollinaire and later adopted by Andre Breton. It refers to a French literary and artistic movement founded in the 1920s. The Surrealists sought to express unconscious thoughts and feelings in their works. ...
  18. Surrealism attempted to bring messages from the subconscious to the surface with unexpected association of ideas, thus it rejected artistic methods controlled by mind. One of its variants portrayed absurd visions with naturalistic accuracy, while the other version relied on abstract forms. ...
  19. A movement founded in France in 1924 by the poet André Breton. It sought to liberate unconscious feelings, and by focusing on dream images, to abandon conscious control. Much European surrealist art shows fantastic and strange scenes depicted in a highly realistic manner.
  20. 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.
  21. An art movement in which one's dreams, nightmares, subconsciousness and fantasy inspired the final works.
  22. A dramatic or cinematic technique that uses fantastic imagery in an attempt to portray the workings of the subconscious.
  23. A style of art of the early 20th century that emphasized dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid, thoughtless forms of notation that expressed, it was felt, the unconscious mind.
  24. the use of factual, realistic elements, reassembled with the mysterious logic of a dream--M.Ernst
  25. One of the most influential of twentieth century artistic movements. Surrealism set out to free the mind from all preconceived ideas by allowing the sub-conscious to assert itself. The Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali is one of the major exponents.