What is surrealism?

Surrealism is a social trend of thought and literary movement that rose in France after the First World War, and its influence spread to European countries, covering literature, art, drama, music and other fields. It absorbs Dadaism's idea of anti-tradition and automatic creation, overcomes Dadaism's fatal weakness of denying everything, and has relatively positive beliefs and programs. As an art movement, it spread most widely during the two world wars. Influenced by Freud's subconscious theory, surrealism is devoted to exploring the transcendental situation of human experience and trying to break through the realistic concept that accords with logic and reality. Combine the concept of reality with instinct, subconscious and dream experience to achieve an absolute and surreal situation. This aesthetic concept, which is not bound by rational and moral concepts, urges artists to express the original impulse and the release of free images in different ways, presenting an absurd image that is divorced from nature and unreasonable. Although surrealism is full of idealism, it has certain positive significance to the western modern art movement. The representative painters of this school are Dali, Miro, Mason, Margaret, Ernst and so on.