Surrealism is an artistic, cultural and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" and the attainment of a dream-like state different from, "more than", and ultimately "truer" than everyday reality: the "sur-real", or "more than real".

For many Surrealists, this orientation toward transcending everyday reality toward one that incorporates the imaginative and the unconscious has manifested itself in the intent to bring about personal, cultural, political and social revolution, sometimes conceived or described as a complete transformation of life by freedom, poetry, love, and sexuality. In the words of André Breton, generally regarded as the founder of surrealism: "beauty will be convulsive or not at all."

At various times individual surrealists aligned themselves with communism and anarchism to advance radical political and social change, arguing that only transformed institutions of work, the family, and education could make possible a general participation to the surreal.

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Best Music Videos of 2009, Part One - w/ SoCal surrealism, anthropomorphic horror, dead British kids & sexual gunplay: http://bit.ly/5jPbl4
alsolikelife (Kevin B Lee) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:46:57 -0000
Best Music Videos of 2009, Part One - w/ SoCal surrealism, anthropomorphic horror, dead British kids & sexual gunplay: http://bit.ly/5jPbl4
Not by him, of course, but what a deft marriage of Surrealism and virtuality! hoot
poisond (Petze Tschau!!!) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:42:13 -0000
Not by him, of course, but what a deft marriage of Surrealism and virtuality! hoot
RT @denverartsygal: Salvador Dali / Surrealism http://is.gd/4wDaR
kapaos (kapaos) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:16:34 -0000
RT @denverartsygal: Salvador Dali / Surrealism http://is.gd/4wDaR
I'm watching the film called Ink. It's confusing but beautiful, like Salvador Dali surrealism. It's reminscent of a Russian film - Solyaris.
MintMickey (Rich) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:31:24 -0000
I'm watching the film called Ink. It's confusing but beautiful, like Salvador Dali surrealism. It's reminscent of a Russian film - Solyaris.
@ladonnabowers the surrealism photo exhibit is amazing. Don't miss.
gretchenpeters (Gretchen Peters) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:22:06 -0000
@ladonnabowers the surrealism photo exhibit is amazing. Don't miss.
@LaightoYagami sorry, my surreal world dictates I not interfere with the surrealism of others
OrochimarusMind (Orochimaru Sama) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:16:50 -0000
@LaightoYagami sorry, my surreal world dictates I not interfere with the surrealism of others

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