Surrealism
Surrealism
Spiritualistic trend of art.
A recent artistic school representing dreams interpreted according to Freud’s theories.
— L.V.
Artistic movement which maintains that there exists, and seeks access to, a “real” world that lies behind the artificial world of ordinary objects given in normal awareness. Argues that what is found on the conscious level is an arbitrary construct of mind, determined by habit and custom, and that the function of art is to recover and report the world as originally experienced and felt. Seeks to disintegrate the clear logical life of intellect, so as to search for its materials on the subconscious level, and discover there the true and primitive meanings that things have for us prior to the forms that we impose on them. — I.J.