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SURREALISM
Surrealism can be defined as "the expression of pure thought in the absence of all control exerted by reason". It can also be described as the "projection of a dream".
History shows that the work of some artists was always inspired by dreams, the supernatural, the irrational, and the absurd.
The true emergence of surrealism, as an art form, occurred in the period just before and after the two world wars.
The artists who came together, in Paris, in the early 1920's mistrusted the materialistic and bourgeois society they believed were responsible for world war one and its aftermath. They felt life was smug and driven by technological and scientific achievements.
Their answer was a revolutionary new anti-art movement.....Surrealism.
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