Monday 24 August 2009

Surreality

'Surrealism originated in Paris as an art and literary movement initiated by poet Andre Breton. Overall, it aimed to liberate the powers of the unconscious. Painters portrayed subconscious of dream images, and artists developed abstract forms symbolizing subconscious thought'.

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Jamie Lopiano- Misdom & Joanne De Luca

"Everything leads me to believe that there exists a certain point in the human mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low cease being percieved as contradictions"

Andre Breton
The Second Surrealist Manifesto, 1924

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