Surrealism [antikvár]

Surrealism was one of the twentieth century's nnost popular and pervasive art nnovements, affecting all branches of the arts and spreading to all corners of the globe. It arose during the Roaring Twenties, as people sought to make sense of the carnage of the First World War and tried to envision a path to a bnghter, more hopeful future. The movement's founder, French poet and wnter André Breton, wanted to completely transform the way people thought by learning how to mine the creative potential of the unconscious. The Surrealist Revolution aimed to free mankind from the shackles of conscious logic and reason, which had only led to war and domination. The heyday of Surrealism, during the 1920s and 1930s, was a period of greater social and political freedoms, as well as an age of political extremism, such as the rise of Fascism, and economic upheaval, notably the Great Depression. The same desire for glamour and escapism that led to the popularity of Art Deco during the 1930s also drew the public to Surrealism.