Surrealism Surrealism is a style in which visual imagery, and literature is used, it was dedicated to the imagination as revealed in dreams, it was free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention, its emphasis was on positive expression. It ... 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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