The document provides background information on Surrealism and some of its key figures: - Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of World War I as a reaction to Dadaism, with Andre Breton and his collaborators pioneering techniques like automatic writing and drawing. - While René Magritte produced thought-provoking works with conceptual underpinnings, much Surrealist art was dismissed as "weird for weird's sake" without deeper meaning. - Salvador Dalí achieved great fame but was also criticized as more of an attention-seeker than a serious artist, producing strange works without substantive ideas behind them. - Both Surrealism and Dadaism remain influential on