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 A painting style of the early 20th century that emphasized the validity
and fascination with images and visions from dreams and fantasies, as
well as an intuitive, spontaneous method of recording such imagery,
often combining unrelated or unexpected objects in compositions.
The movement was founded in Paris by Andre Breton and launched in 1924
with the publication of his "First Manifesto of Surrealism". A year
later the Galerie Pierre in Paris hosted the first Surrealism
exhibition. The movement, named by Andre Breton from work by poet
Guillaume Apollinaire, caught hold in the United States in the 1930s
and was much dominated by the influence of Salvadore Dali. Other early
20th-century American artists associated with early Surrealism were Man
Ray, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Arshile
Gorky, Philip Evergood, Jackson Pollock, Bradley Tomlin, Peter Blume,
William Baziotes, Enrico Donati, and Mark Rothko. As an expression of a
coherent group, Surrealism ended with the outbreak of World War II, but
its themes continue to appear in American and European art. Sources:
Artlex.com, courtesy of Micheal Delahunt; "Phaidon Dictionary of
Twentieth-Century Art"; AskART database (LPD)
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