| However, not all of the surrealists saw psychoanalysis and the liberation of the human mind as an end in itself. |
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| Automatic writing was one activity that the surrealists housed under the rubric of psychic automatism. |
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| The ultimate logic of this method is automatic writing developed by the surrealists. |
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| In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema. |
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| The early cartographers may have been unknowing surrealists when they made a tiny island off the coast of Ireland and called it Brazil. |
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| It was a description of a transhistorical Event, a break-out embracing Anabaptists, situationists, Dadaists, surrealists, punks. |
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| An influential group of Belgian surrealists claimed that it was a previously unattributed sculpture by Rene Magritte. |
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| He was attractive to Dadaists, futurists, cubists, constructivists, abstract expressionists, and surrealists. |
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| The surrealists turned exhibitions into stage events and dramatic confrontations between the artists taking part and the public invited to attend. |
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| The surrealists, who were inspired by the secret depths of a person, communicated with evil spirits and ventured into the field of psychology. |
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| This connection between the body of the woman and a musical instrument illustrates the theme of the unusual, dear to the surrealists. |
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| Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukSATIRISTS and surrealists are at once fortunate and challenged in the countries of the former Soviet Union. |
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| French surrealists, cubists, and impressionists mostly influence Lebanese artists, who add an oriental touch to the French technique and subject matter. |
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| The Parisian surrealists turned Brandt into a noctambulist, adept at studying the phantoms that prowl the city after the dark. |
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| There, he spent his time in the company of surrealists while continuing to paint and sculpt. |
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| Hermann Hesse later declared that it was a major book: it influenced Franz Kafka, H. P. Lovecraft, Jünger and the surrealists. |
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| In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, Dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists. |
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| It foreshadows the surrealists, as he shows the monkeys playing in the jungle with a backscratcher and a milk bottle, trappings of civilisation in the savage world. |
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| Arguably, one of the most well-known surrealists is Salvador Dali. |
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| A decidedly political side emerged when the surrealists declared themselves Marxists and joined the early French Communist Party. |
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| Being well-known in Portugal has lived among the most prominent Portuguese surrealists. |
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| Portraiture, and self-portraiture, came naturally to the surrealists. |
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| The political stand of the surrealists and dadaists put them beyond the scope of any fundamentally conservative movement. |
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| So instead she has chosen to recount the soap-operatic lives of the surrealists, of their promiscuous, scandalous, perfidious and self-obsessed goings-on, all in the name of revolution. |
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| The great strength of the surrealists is that they acknowledged everyone's ability to identify with an art or ordinary object provided it is not exclusively assigned a conventional meaning. |
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| Going beyond overturning traditions, the surrealists overturn values. |
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| As early as the 1920s, the surrealists felt free to transgress the boundaries between performers and viewers, inviting the dancers to take over the orchestra seats. |
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| Like the kindred Surrealists and Dadaists before him, Spoerri favored activities that enhanced the role of chance in his art works. |
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| His reputation was revived by the Surrealists, who admired his visual punning. |
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| The Surrealists loved bad movies, seeing them as subversive attacks on the tyranny of narrative form. |
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| It is common knowledge that the Surrealists and many key European modernists came to New York to escape the war. |
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| The Futurists, the Surrealists, the abstract expressionists, all sought their passionate rhapsodies, of mechanization, or libido, or spontaneity. |
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| But there is no reason to assume a logical link between the two, as Brecht, the Futurists and the Surrealists recognised. |
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| In France, he frequented the Surrealists, conceptually drawing from their principles of visual subversion. |
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| Techniques such as appropriation and collaging originated in the Arts, with the Cubists, Dadaists, and Surrealists at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
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| Placing the viewer directly beneath the forms of the rocks, she evinces an appreciation of the sheer weight and power of nature worthy of the Surrealists. |
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| Much in the way Negritude was important to the Surrealists, white avant-gardists value the poem for its legitimizing linkage to white avant-gardism. |
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| The split from Dada has been characterised as a split between anarchists and communists, with the Surrealists as communist. |
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| Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists. |
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| This linked with other Surrealists and was very important for the subsequent development of Surrealism as a revolutionary praxis. |
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| While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism. |
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| Surrealists have often sought to link their efforts with political ideals and activities. |
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| Samuel Beckett was also fond of Surrealists, even translating much of the poetry into English. |
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| In this drawing by the Surrealists Morise, Max Ernst, and Masson, Ernst converted the voids under the figure's arms into birds. |
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| The Surrealists rejected rationalism and focused their attention on the imagination. |
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| Futurism was succeeded by the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, who exerted a strong influence on the Surrealists and generations of artists to follow. |
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| Dabbling in art had left me with some notions about Monet, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Braque, and the Surrealists and Dadaists. |
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| Freud initiated the psychoanalytic critique of Surrealism with his remark that what interested him most about the Surrealists was not their unconscious but their conscious. |
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| Freud's work with free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious was of utmost importance to the Surrealists in developing methods to liberate imagination. |
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| One way might be to play a game where someone shows a mixed set of art reproductions and the players see who can be first to identify those paintings by Surrealists. |
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