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Shortly after World War one there was a group of people who started a movement called Dadaism. The Dadism movement was founded due to the disagreements with the previous war and the displeasures of its aftermath. These Dadaist used art to ridicule the war and to show a stand against all that it stood for. In the early 1920’s dadism was no longer a relavent movement and a few years later surrealism took the reigns. It can be said that Andre Breton was one of the founders of surrealism. Andre Breton was relatively involved in dadism, but he felt the need to start his own movement based on his own beliefs and ideals. Being one of the founders of the surrealist movement Andre Breton was a substantial part of its success with his literature alone. In works such as Manifestos of surrealism and Nadja Breton gives precise details on what surrealism is or can be. There texts show why Breton was a predominant part of the Surrealist movement.

In Paris in 1924 when Andre Breton Published the first Manifesto of Surrealism, it detailed a description of ideas for the movement. This Manifesto introduced many other artists who were on board with the surrealist movement .It also gave the world a look at what surrealism was going to be about. The surrealist movement focused on the unconscious and they made plenty of art based just on that idea. The unconscious is what surrealism is mostly based on. When creating surrealist art artist are told to try and dig into the unconscious or sometimes to not even think when creating art, just do whatever comes naturally without thinking about it too much. In the Article Surrealism and freedom Robert Clancy quotes Lautreamont (a fellow surrealist colleague of Breton) with an excellent interpretation of wh...

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...owed how surrealism worked and gave the artist and the observers a chance to really take into account what was really going on with this movement. One of the most important parts of manifesto is the freedom for the artist. Breton wanted the artist to be as free as possible to make the work more surrealistic. In this essay Nadja is crucial factor to show how Breton used surrealist factors in his own literature and how it was such a success. In his novel Breton uses a lot of different surrealistic examples, metaphors, junxapositions, etc to make his work as surrealist as possible. He is very successful because the story of Nadja seems just like a dream when reading it. It seems as if he has met the woman of his dreams and it all just gets taken away from him. With these two texts alone people can see how Breton was such a predominant part of the surrealist movement.