Surrealism
1924–1966 · Event
Breton's manifesto turned Freud's unconscious into an artistic method: dream imagery and irrational juxtaposition in Dalí, Magritte, Ernst and Miró. The movement outlived its founding circle to colour film, advertising and everyday speech.
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