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....Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s.Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s.Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s.Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s.Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s.Surrealism in art a style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreamsgrew out of a French literary movement founded during the 1920s. The term surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917; the artistic movement, however, came into being only after the French poet Andre BRETON published the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du surrealisme, in 1924. In this book Breton suggested that rational thought was repressive to the powers of creativity and imagination and thus inimical to artistic expression. An admirer of Sigmund Freud and his concept of the subconscious, Breton felt that contact with this hidden part of the mind could produce poetic truth. Breton soon recognized the kinship between his literary aims and the artistic aims of certain painters fascinated by Freudian concepts. In 1925, with Breton's encouragement, the first group exhibition of surrealist painting took place in Paris. Among those included were Giorgio de CHIRICO, Max ERNST, Andre MASSON, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, and Man RAY. The presurrealist paintings of de Chirico, done before 1919, were of particular influence to certain of the surrealists, including Max ERNST, Salvador DALI, Rene MAGRITTE, and Yves TANGUY. These painters developed a dreamlike, or hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly realistic rendering. Other painters, including Miro and Masson, used biomorphic forms and accidental effects that approached abstraction. Their work influenced the beginnings of abstract expressionism in the United States during the 1940s...