... in Paris by Andre Breton with his Manifeste du surrealism, according to him surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience, so completely that the world of dream and 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 up...

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It came upon a midnight clear, I walked the streets of Paris with one dear. The shops were closed this blustery night, But the glistening lights twinkled bright. Atop the Eiffel Tower we could see, Lighting of the Champs-Elysees's Christmas tree. It was a magical night with the falling snow, But there are people to see and places to go. The Arc de Triomphe in the middle of town, Had buses and cars going round and round. L Tour d' Argent was a brisk walk away, We passed the Bastille on our way. At the close of our evening we could hear, The caroling of voices from Basilique du Sacré-Coeur so l...

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