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Surrealism Surrealism as we know it today is closely related to some
forms of abstract art. In fact, they shared similar origins, but they
diverged on their interpretation of what those origins meant to the aesthetic
of art. At the end of the First War World, Tristan Tzara, leader of the
Dada movement, wanted to attack society through scandal. He believed that
a society that creates the monstrosity of war does not deserve art, so
he decided to give it anti-art–not beauty but ugliness. With phrases like
Dada destroys everything! Tzara wanted to offend the new industrial commercial
world–the bourgeoisie. However, his intended victims were not insulted
at all. Instead they thought that this rebellious new expression opposed,
not them but the "old art" and the "old patrons" of feudalism and church
dominion. In fact, the bourgeoisie embraced this "rebellious" new art
so thoroughly that anti-art became Art, the anti-academy the Academy,
the anti-conventionalism the Convention, and the rebellion through chaotic
images, the status quo. One group of artists, however, did not embrace
this new art that threw away all which centuries of artists had learned
and passed on about the craft of art. The Surrealist movement gained momentum
after the Dada movement. It was lead by Andre Breton, a French doctor
who had fought in the trenches during the First World War. The artists
in the movement researched and studied the works of Sigmund Freud and
Carl Jung. Some of the artists in the group expressed themselves in the
abstract tradition, while others, expressed themselves in the symbolic
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Surrealism is not dead
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