Surrealism

Surrealism was first a literary movement in the 20th century, and was later joined by visual arts, photography and film. In response to the failure of the war, artists sought a liberation from thought, which would no longer be dictated by reason. They are in search of a liberation from creation and expression, based on dreams' mechanisms. André Breton defined the movement in the first Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. Mainly based in Paris, then world capital of the arts, the artists come from all over Europe and the United States: Eluard, Aragon, De Chirico, Ernst, Masson, Man Ray, Miró, Magritte or Dalí.