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.”
