In the intriguing world of Surrealist art, three artists and their iconic art images that made inescapable imprints in our memories. Almost as though recalling a dream their memory couldn’t quite grasp or describe accurately, because it was far too absurd to put into words and logic in the deepest sense. And through the artistic reality of previously neglected associations, in these dreams and the absence of control by reason, their art spoke to the viewer powerfully afresh. Surrealist artists would depict abstract images of contradiction, binding the states of dreaming and waking, so-called “surreality,” a kind of absolute reality, as described by Breton.
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It summoned audiences to go beyond logic and sensibility, to set free the repressed mind -the persistence of our memories. And that meant artwork and literature with elements that were unexpected but expressive, philosophical, and deeply psychoanalytic in its essence. Surrealism was both an artistic and literary approach whose purpose was to liberate thought and release it from the constraints of rationalism, seeking to unlock all the peculiarities that resided in one’s consciousness.
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.” The Surrealist art movement was founded and led by André Breton in 1924. But that was exactly the point -an alternative mode of expression. As an art movement that aimed to depict the subconscious, many critics found Surrealism unnerving and illogical.
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