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Characteristics Of Surrealism

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Sultante of Oman
Ministry of Higher Education
Ibri College of Applied Sciences

Surrealism School
What is the Surrealism School and how has it influenced artists

Student name: Athari Humaid AL-Shukaili
Class:G60
First Year
Semester 2
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Surrealism is the doctrine of modern French art and literature. It's one of the schools that focused on all that is strange and paradoxical feeling. Surrealism aims at the truth and bringing out ideas, imagination and control dreams. In my essay I will be first talking about the early Surrealism school. Second, the Characteristics of Surrealism. Finally, I will discuss …show more content…

It flourished in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. Surrealists used symbols as a method of telling a story. The Surrealism movement has spread across the world and greatly influenced the visual arts, music, philosophy and political thought and social theory in many countries of the world. Guilloume Apollinaire (1903) redact the word Surrealism and it appeared for the first time in the introduction to his play "Les Maumelle's do Tiresias". Surrealists stressed that it is possible to collect heterogeneous elements naturally in the same frame for illogical and amazing results. The aim of the group to create a revolution in the human experience in all aspects personal, cultural, social and political. Brighton (1917) announced that real goal of the surreal was "long live the social revolution alone". For this reason, Surrealism went in many times with communism and anarchism. In 1924 they founded the Research office of Surrealism and began to publish a magazine "La Revolution

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