The surrealist movement and collage

Relation between surrealism and joining and the other movement


The surrealist movement was formed in the spirit of dispute of the Dadaism which is revealed during the war 14-18. Its official existence is registered in 1924 with the domination of the personality of Andre Breton. As the Dada movement its members denounce the nonsenses of the war and rationalism. At the beginning the movement of Andre Breton is of literary gasoline experimental but very quickly it is addressed to the visual arts. The experiments of Picasso and Braques on joining impassion them but especially they are fascinated not the frictions joinings of Max Ernst.
Its technique tallies with the philosophy of the movement which gives a very important role to unconscious and the reduction of the will of the artist. The movement is of course especially known by the step of its painters who were a time in his Miro mobility, Dali, Magritte, Man ray, Masson. The conflicts inside the movement reflect with evil the movement after the war and especially with died of Breton. But the ideas of the introduction of unconscious remain in the various artistic movements which followed. Surrealism thus deeply inspired American art: the practice of the automatism is for example one of the origins of the work of Jackson Pollock and the Painting Action, while the interest carried by the Surrealist ones with the topic of the object announces Pop Art (see collage and pot Art) and the New Realistic ones.