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surrealism
📅 Updated:2024-06-13
🕒 Created:2022-11-27
🆔 ID:46850
Description
An art style originating in the 20th century, which portrays or interprets the workings of the unconscious mind as manifested in dreams.
Some of the common features include:
- Dream-like scenes and symbolic images
- Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions
- Bizarre assemblages of ordinary objects
- Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity
- Games and techniques to create random effects
- Personal iconography
- Visual puns
- Distorted figures and biomorphic shapes
- Uninhibited sexuality and taboo subjects
- Primitive or child-like designs
