Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement born in Paris in the 1920s, inserted in the context of the avant-garde movements that served to define modernism in the period between the two Great World Wars.
It brings together artists previously linked to Dadaism gaining a global dimension. Strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis, surrealism emphasizes the role of the unconscious in creative activity. One of its two objectives was to produce an art that, secondly, was being destroyed by rationalism. The poet and critic André Breton was the main leader and mentor of this movement.
Techniques:
The surrealists use different techniques to activate their unconscious, one of them is the exquisite corpse (refined corpse), a technique based on randomness and corality, which involves the collaboration of several artists: one of them begins to operate by tracing a design, a figure, that should be ignored by others; The sheet must be passed to all the participants, one by one, which in turn will form a figure and so on.
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