Surrealism is a type of art where people use their imaginations to create strange or unusual pictures. Sometimes surrealist artists use photography to create their art.
Surrealism began in the early 1920s, and it was inspired by the work of French writer Andre Breton and his group of friends, who were known as the Paris Surrealists. The Paris Surrealists wanted to channel the unconscious mind through strange, dreamlike imagery. Salvador Dali is perhaps the most famous surrealist artist; he created bizarre and dreamlike paintings that often featured melting clocks and tentacles growing out of women’s heads.
Not only did surrealists work in painting, sculpture, and other media like film; they also wrote poetry and prose that used stream-of-consciousness or dreamlike imagery. Surrealist films often feature dreamlike or irrational scenes and characters; for example, Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) involves a psychiatrist who discovers that his patient has been hypnotized by his mother into believing he’s being controlled by her during sleepwalking episodes at night time when she tries to kill him so she can keep control over him forever (which is actually pretty creepy if you think about it).
