Archives: Art Movements

1907-1928 Cubism and Futurism are the predecessors, or foundations of 20th-century abstract art, but are distinctive and defining art movements;…

Origin of Cubism Art movement Cubism movement was led by Pablo Picasso and George Braques while others like Albert Gleizes,…

1898 – 1920 Fauvism is one f the earliest avant-garde art movements, and greatly influenced German Expressionism, and known for their…

1898 – 1920 Expressionism is one of the earliest avant-garde art movements, and this art movement was centered on the expression…

1880 -1910 Symbolism and Art Nouveau were simultaneous art movements that existed each on its own but that often came…

1886 – 1904 A movement led by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Gauguin, Post Impressionism got was a French art…

1860 – 1895 Impressionism is looked on fondly by appreciators of art the world over as being a beautiful form…

Art History: A Quick Brief of Realism Art 1848 – Present The artist sacrifices his creativity and imagination for hard-hitting…

1916 – 1970 Dadaism and Surrealism were two avant-garde movements of the early 20th century that have had a profound…

Founded in Paris in 1924, Surrealism had already become an artistic and literary movement as time went on. French poet Andre Breton claimed that the “Enlightenment had suppressed the stronger qualities of the irrational and unconscious mind.” The Enlightenment, which was highly influential in the 17th and 18th centuries, was the intellectual movement that outweighed reason and individualism. Surrealism art movement has a great impact in the history of art and design

However, the main aim of Surrealism was to change thoughts, human experience, and language from the hostile boundaries set by the issue of rationalism.

Breton studied medicine and psychiatry and had very sound knowledge in the psychoanalytical signs of Sigmund Freud. He was mainly interested in the idea that the unconscious mind that produced our dreams was the source of artistic creativity.

As a very devoted Marxist, Breton also claimed that Surrealism was a revolutionary movement with the capability to exploit the minds of the masses from the rational order of the society they live in. But how could they achieve the liberation of the human mind?