Chapter 7. Neosurrealism

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SteamPunk Icecream, by Aiven

Neosurrealism is an art genre born out of the old Surrealism movement and its rich and varied ways of expression. Surrealism was a cultural movement put together by a group of writers and visual artists in the early 1920s, led by André Breton, who considered Surrealism, above all, to be a revolutionary movement within the art world.

The philosophy behind the Surrealist movement was to react against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the “rationalism” guiding European culture toward the horrors of World War II.

Surrealism also provided a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious ...

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