From Man Ray to Mariën: an idea of Surrealism

Abstract

"Officially acknowledged for the first time in Paris in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism entitled 'Le Manifeste du Surréalisme' by the poet, critic, and founder of the movement André Breton (1896-1966), Surrealism originated as a literary and artistic movement in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It was based on the experimentation of new modes of expression called automatic writing. Surrealism, influenced by the political ideas of Karl Marx, rapidly became an international intellectual and political movement. The members of this group comprised trained psychiatrists and poets. At first, Surrealist poets and writers did not align with visual artists but as it developed it started to admire the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso, one of the founders of cubism, Marcel Duchamp inventor of the Ready Made and Giorgio de Chirico, creator of the Pittura Metafisica. Artists like Man Ray and Marcel Mariën through their inventiveness, audacity, imagination and questioning of art, characterize the very idea of Surrealism around the world."--