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What is Surrealism?
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. The Movement was founded in Paris in 1924 by André Breton. His aim of Surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life. Surrealism also aimed at social and political revolution and for a time was affiliated to the Communist party. Salvador Dali, and Rene Magritte, and the later free form or automatic work by artist such as Max Ernst and Joan Miro had a huge influence on art, literature and the cinema as well as on social attitudes and behavior of Surrealism.
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