Surrealism: BSA 106 (Screen Arts 1) Week 9

BSA 106 (Screen Arts 1) Week 9

Surrealist Film Movement

Surrealism is an art movement that originated from the "Dada" or "Dada-ism" movement,  which served as a response to World War 1 and was used as a way to comment on the stupidity of the world war and as a form of protest, a protest against everything - see it's breaking of conventional rules and non-nonsensical nature. Dada-ism was an art form that was very much anti-art.

The founder of surrealism was a major player in the Dada group, his name: Andre Breton. Breton believed that the surrealist genre explored the mind-set and thought processes of the human brain, he believed that surrealist pieces of art were a direct attempt at expression of the functioning of thought, without the restrictions of reason.

In 1926 he drafted the "Surrealist Manifesto".

The aims of Surrealist artists is to reject conventional aspects of art and achieve a form of complete conventional absurdity - by leaving behind any semblance of sense these artists are able to upset, disorientate or shock an audience in order to focus towards more abstract concepts.