Stephanie Tizzard
Surrealism and Contemporary Surrealism
Surrealism started in the early 1920’s, and is a well known art style used by various different artists around the globe. Surrealism is an exciting art style that often plays with realistic subjects, to then transform them somehow by painting them in a perplexing way; it plays with the element of surprise the unexpected use of juxtapositions. Surrealism artists were influenced by psychological research of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, who sought to explain the workings of the mind through analysis of the symbols of dreams. Surrealism was a cultural movement that involved both writers and artists, one of the most influential writers was a French doctor called Andre Berton. Berton was Surrealism’s main leader; he wrote poetry in the First World War and studied Sigmund Freud’s work; and used Freud’s psychoanalytic methods also.
