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surrealism
Title: surrealism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 922 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
surrealism
SURREALISM
Surrealism As World War I came to an end, the Dada movement evolved into a new movement called Surrealism. This medium of art created a palette of purity and hope though automatism and use of dreams. The Surrealists strove for simplicity and spontaneity or as some called it, automatism. They wanted to answer the question "how shall I be free?" and to express thought without any tainted preconceptions. They believed automatism "would reveal the …showed first 75 words of 922 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 922 total…In The Human Condition, the eye is fooled into believing that the painting is of a landscape being viewed through a window. In reality, the painting is of a painting on an easel in front of a window containing the view outside that window. Magritte also demonstrates this illusionistic quality in The False Mirror where the iris of the painted eye is filled with a sky scene. Surrealists were seeking-- pure, untainted and spontaneous.
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