What is Surrealism?

As defined by the Collins Concise Dictionary, Surrealism: a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially from Dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements Surrealism became dominant in Europe between the 1920s and 1930s although greatly diminished after World War II. It grew from the earlier Dada movement which was a Western Europe artistic and literary movement that was based on …

…Metaphysical painting before he joined the Surrealists in 1929 which made him the most famous representative of the movement because of his precise style that created a nightmarish effect in his paintings. Surrealism allow viewers to imagine and interpret paintings for them self which may or may not intentionally contain meanings behind them which is the beauty of it. They can be confusing if one attempts to understand them, yet incredibly intriguing at the same time.