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the art movement that turned dream logic into a respectable career path.
means An early 20th-century artistic and literary movement that sought to unleash the unconscious mind, juxtaposing dreamlike, irrational, and unexpected imagery.
from Coined by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire around 1917, from French surréalisme — sur- 'above, beyond' (from Latin super) plus réalisme 'realism.' Literally 'above realism,' meaning a reality heightened past the everyday. André Breton seized the word for his 1924 manifesto, and from then on it belonged to the dreamers.
- birth year
- Launched by Andre Breton's 1924 manifesto
- automatic writing
- Wrote whatever the unconscious dictated, edits forbidden
- famous defection
- Dali expelled for liking money too much
- melting clocks
- Dali claimed they came from melting Camembert cheese
- exquisite corpse
- Group game drawing bodies nobody saw whole
for instance
the persistence of memory — dalí's 1931 painting featuring drooping clocks in a landscape