Surrealism

We were instructed to look up surrealism on our own. I stumbled across a few sites, but the one that struck me as the most accurate is ArtStory. This site explains the nature of the movement. Surrealism was born out of Dadaism. However surrealism is more structured and spiritual. Instead of intending to be random, it is drawn out of creativity, intentionally crafted. They believed that imagination could be influenced by "every day life" and that could be intentionally added to their art pieces.

According to the article, Andre Breton made the art form official when he defined it as "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."

Surrealism art piece stretch the imagination, revealing strange and bizarre images of the mind, art that confuse and inspire.

Image:

http://abduzeedo.com/impressive-and-creative-digital-surrealism