Best surrealist art to inject your space with dream-like beauty
Melting gold pocket watches, fluttering butterfly ships, sun-drenched vistas peppered with indescribable creatures and trumpet-trunked elephants. Welcome to the fantastical world of Surrealism.
Surrealism is one of the more complex footnotes in the canon of art history. The term was coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917, but was championed as a movement by writer André Breton. In his Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, the figurehead described Surrealism as: “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought.”
The movement marries philosophy with artistic expression in order to alter the human experience. According to the : “[Surrealism] balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and
