Surrealism emerged in the early 20th century as an artistic movement that aimed to release creative potential by exploring dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational juxtapositions. Key figures like Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst used techniques like automatic drawing, found objects, collage, and dream imagery to challenge rational thought and social norms. Surrealism had a significant influence on modern art and popular culture in areas like film, music, fashion, and product design.

1. SURREALISM sur- ( beyond ) + réalisme ( realism )

2. The Unconscious Revolution (personal and social) Random Juxtapositions ( Collage, “Corps Exquisite” and Automatic Drawing ) Objet Trouve

3. Andre Breton

4. “ Surrealism, as I envisage it, proclaims loudly enough our absolute nonconformity, that there may be no question of calling it, in the case against the real world, as a witness for the defense.” Andre Breton, 1924 , Manifeste du Surrealisme

5. The Rendezvous of Friends Max Ernst, 1922

6. Fyodor Dostoevsky

7. Lord Byron (1788-1824) (“ Mad, bad and dangerous to know ”) Lord Byron

8. Theodor Gericault The Raft of The Medusa 1819

9. Delacroix The Death of Sardanapolus 1827

10. Francisco Goya The Sleep of reason Produces Monsters 1799

11. Eugene Delacroix

13. “ I accustomed myself to simple hallucination…” -Arthur Rimbaud

15. Karl Marx Sigmund Freud

16. “ Radical Juxtapostions” Collage Objet trouve Automatic drawing Exquisite Corpse

17. "manufactured objects raised to the dignity of works of art through the choice of the artist."

18. Surrealist Exhibition of Objects, 1936

19. “ the revolution of objects and the revolution through objects”

20. Fountain Marcel Duchamp, 1917

21. Two Children are Menaced by a Nightingale Max Ernst, 1924

22. Murdering Aeroplane Max Ernst, 1920

23. “ frottage” drawings by Max Ernst, c. 1920s

24. Une Semaine de Bonte Max Ernst, 1934

25. "systematic displacement" “ He who speaks of collage speaks of the irrational.“ Max Ernst

26. “ Corps Exquisite”

27. “ automatic drawing” by Andre Masson Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought . Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. -Andre Breton

28. The Harlequin’s Carnival Joan Miro, 1924

29. “… the pairing of two apparently unpairable realities on a plane apparently unsuitable to them” -Andre Breton

32. Walter Benjamin credited Surrealism with having exposed to view "the ruins of the bourgeoisie".

33. Luncheon in Fur Meret Oppenheim, 1936

34. Le Cadeau Man Ray, 1923

35. “ As beautiful as…

36. … the chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table.” -Lautreamont

37. Le mervailleuse “ Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful. Anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.” -Andre Breton, 1924

38. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street Giorgio di Chirico, 1914

39. Giorgio di Chirico

40. The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali, 1934

41. The Church of the Sagrada Familia Antoni Gaudi, begun 1883

42. L’ Amour Fou

43. “ Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” -Andre Breton

45. Alberto Giacometti

46. Woman With Her Throat Cut Alberto Giacometti

47. Seated Bather Pablo Picasso

48. “ Minotauromachie ” Pablo Picasso 1937

49. Erotic-Veiled

50. Erotique Voilee Man Ray, 1933

51. Hans Bellmer

54. Surrealist Legacies

55. New York 1940-1970

56. The Liver is the Cock’s Comb Arshile Gorky, 1942

58. Robert Motherwell Elergy for the Spanish Republic 1953-4

59. Jackson Pollock Lavender Mist, 1950

60. Joseph Cornell

61. Jasper Johns

62. Robert Rauschenberg

63. Claes Oldenburg

64. 1960+

65. Robert Gober

66. Louise Bourgeois

67. Mona Hatoum

68. Marc Quinn

69. Sarah Lucas

71. Jake and Dinos Chapman

72. Paul McCarthy

73. Chris Burden (Los Angeles, 1970s) The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. -Andre Breton (Paris, 1924)

74. Ai Weiwei

75. Performance Art

76. “ Hyperreal”

77. Matthew Barney

78. Maurizio Catellan

79. Jeff Koons

80. Surrealism and Popular Culture Cinema Rock music TV

82. Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock, 1945

88. Surrealism, Advertisement and Package Design

92. Surrealism and Product Design

93. Salvador Dali

94. Salvador Dali

95. Salvador Dali

96. Man Ray

97. Meret Oppenheim

98. Julia Lohmann

116. Surrealism and Fashion

117. Elsa Schiarapelli Dali-inspired hats, 1936

120. Guy Bourdin

121. “ Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.” -Andre Breton “ Madness is revolution confined to the self.” -John Berger