A break down of surrealism

This post is for my own reference and is to help in explaining surrealism all words are eater my own or are taken from the relevant articles,Please note that further work will be added later on.

a good link for all the information needed:http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/surrealism

A 20th century avant garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind,for example by the irrational Jutapealsen  of images.The artists which inhenrtirted this movement were as followed:

Marcel Duchamp:
One of parcels pieces of work that was most notable to me was this piece:

Marcel Duchamp, Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train (Nu [esquisse], jeune homme triste dans un train), 1911–12, oil on cardboard mounted on Masonite, 100 x 73 cm (39 3/8 × 28 3/4 

i felt like this piece was quite a illusion and that it has a strange look to it.

and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse , as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to put art back in the service of the mind.

Duchamp's early art works align with Post-Impressionist styles. He experimented with classical techniques and subjects. When he was later asked about what had influenced him at the time, Duchamp cited the work of Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, whose approach to art was not outwardly anti-academic, but quietly individual.

Georgina O keefe:

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"

Max Ernst,sir henry moore ,Rene magritte ,joan miro Salvador Dali, pablo picasso, man ray , Dorothea tanning. Mc escher.
French poet André Breton launched this movement in Paris in 1924
It became an international movement including British surrealism which formed in 1936
They were strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) and his theories about the unconscious
The aim of surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life
Key artists involved in the movement were Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró
Two broad types of surrealism can be seen: the oneiric (dream-like imagery) and automatism (a process of making which unleashed the unconscious by drawing or writing without conscious thought)
Some (such as Max Ernst) used new techniques such as frottage and collage to create unusual imagery