All About Surrealism Art

Surrealism Art refers to that artistic movement that is chiefly aimed at bringing together artists, researchers and thinkers in the hunt for a sense of self expression through the unconscious. The participants and followers of Surrealism Art continue to search for a fuller understanding and more accurate mode of expression of new social orders, new aestheticism and new humanity.

Surrealism Art emerged from the revolutionary spirit that characterized European avant- garde in the 1920s and was used (mainly) as a denunciation of the rationalistic arrogance that marked the latter years of the 19th century.

André Breton was one of the personalities who initially dominated Surrealism Art that first started in the form of a literary movement. However, after a few years and more international exposure, Giorgio De Chirico took over and is known today as the proper founder of Surrealism Art.

The main aim of Surrealism Art is to make drastic reductions on the role played by consciousness and intervention of will. Max Ernst used collage and frottage techniques to further the cause of Surrealism Art while André Masson experimented with automatic drawings. Man Ray and his famous Rayographs, Dalí, Magritte, and Miró who produced oneiric images that sought to cause a juxtaposition of disparate elements were other, highly influential members of the Surrealism Art movement.

Thus, there are a wide number of expressive modes within Surrealism Art such as Exquisite Corpse, Collage, Frottage, a new interpretation of Decalcomania (by Oscar Domínguez), Automatic Writing, Fumage, Grattage, Surrealistic Object, Paranoia-criticism and Rayography. Each of these styles varies in terms of medium and message; some of them involve writing while others are expressed via drawing or painting. In fact, they are very diverse indeed as evidenced by the fact that Exquisite Corpse is actually a game. However, all of them are part and parcel of a dynamic art movement that has been adapting and evolving for nearly a century.

With the rise of the Internet, we are now able to access many online galleries that display surrealistic art. Of course, with so much artwork available, there is a wide variance of quality. Some of it is quite good, while the rest is, well… Occasionally however, we can find something that is really remarkable. (Hallelujah for the Internet!) Here’s one that interests us: Drawings, Paintings & Prints