In art and literature, surrealism is a way of combining ideas, images, and objects in a strange way, as if in a dream. It was founded by the French poet André Breton in Paris in 1924 and lasted till 1966. In the 1920's, the movement spread around the world influencing the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries. This company's early work was heavily influenced by European surrealism during the 1930s. This was a cultural movement originating in Europe after World War I and was influenced by Dada, an artistic movement. According to the movement's founder, André Breton, his aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality".
André Breton
André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet. His place of birth was Tinchebray-Bocage, Tinchebray-Bocage, France in 1896 and passed away in 1966. He is best known for being the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. A major work of his was the first Surrealist Manifesto published in 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". Apart from his position as a leader of the surrealist movement, he is also the author of novels such as Nadja and L'Amour fou. Through these activities, as well as his critical and theoretical contributions to the field of writing and art, André Breton became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century French art and literature.
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