(Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Pali, Man Ray, Jean Arp)
-post WWI
-less political(??)
-acces to the cubconcious mind
-new psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, "the interpratation of dreams" 1899
Techniques->Automatism
surrealism: take expectations and SNAP THEM
trying to shock you out of the ordinary
-middle class artist - rebeling against it.
they didnt want to be cogs in the machine-against social order
-fantasy is not new. Surrealist, however would do their own as oppose to shared
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