... fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world, in an absolute reality ,a surreality. Surrealism became dominant in the 1920s and 30s and was internationally practiced with many and varied forms of expression. Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy used dreamlike perception of space and dream-inspired symbols such as melting watches and huge metronomes. "Absolute" surrealism depends upon images derived from ... psychic automatism, the subconscious or spontaneous thought. Surrealism as we know it is closely related to some forms of abstract art. The movement survived but was greatly dimin...

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