Surrealism

 

Surrealism is a style of art and literature which originated in the 1920's which was in the 20th century. stressing the images that doesn't make sense and has no reason of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploits of chance effect, unexpected and juxtapositions etc.

 

 

Surrealism was launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton. Andre was strongly influenced by the theories by Sigmund Freud. The founder of physcoanalysis.

 

No type of surrealism images are the same and all different in some sort of way. Some can be quite oblique but then others can be extremely abstract, dream-like or automatic. Images such as: