Essay On Surrealism

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Surrealism. Do you know what is that word? Have you ever heard about that word? What it has to do with art and design? Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in early 1920s. It tried to combine between the dream and reality. The artists were trying to make a strange creature from everyday life object and paint that let the unconscious mind express itself. Surrealism is very well known from it visual artworks and writings. Surrealist was influenced by the Dadaists who like the work which relished on chance and spontaneity. Surrealist was working based on the unconscious site of mind and they believed that combination of ego, superego, dream and the id will lead them to express their authenticity and a truer reality (surreal). Surrealism was started in the midst of World War I in the influence of Dada activities. The “Pope of Surrealism” was André Breton, a French writer. He was said that surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement. The center development for surrealism was in Paris. After 1920s, the spreading of surrealism was over the globe already at visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages. In social environment, surrealism also affects political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory. Surrealism use a lot of techniques to create the effect and make inspiration, such as collage, cubomania, decalcomania, eclaboussure, frottage, fumage and grattage. The visual artist who first worked with surrealist technique and imagery were the German Max Ernest, the Spanish André Masson, the Spaniard Joan Miró and the American Man Ray. Followed by that, a lot of surrealist, some of them also former Dadaist was express themselves with their uniqueness of techniques, one artist is different...

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