... revealed in dreams, it was free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention, its emphasis was on positive expression. It flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew out of the earlier Dada movement. It was founded in 1924 in Paris by Andre Breton with his Manifeste du surrealism, according to him surrealism was a means of ... 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 diminished after World War II. An example of Surrealism...

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