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{{quote|''It was the end of sorrow lies. The rail stations were dead, flowing like bees stung from honeysuckle. The people hung back and watched the ocean, animals flew in and out of focus. The time had come. Yet king dogs never grow old - they stay young and fit, and someday they might come to the beach and have a few drinks, a few laughs, and get on with it. But not now. The time had come; we all knew it. But who would go first?''|'''Les Champs Magnetique''', ''Andre Breton'' }}
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Surrealism was a movement encompassing both literature and art, originating in Europe between the World Wars. The aim was to make art that reflected the fundamental truth about the world; they took the name surrealism (the prefix ''sur-'' means "super") because they considered themselves super-realists. They were also huge fans of Sigmund Freud, whose psychoanalysis was the hottest fad of the decade, so the surrealists' super-realism was essentially art about the subconscious, [[All Psychology Is Freudian|as Freud envisioned it]].
One major branch used very abstracted art to symbolically represent the subconscious. The other, better-known, branch attempted to more-or-less literally depict the strange logic of one's
Due to the popularity of the latter branch, the definition of "surrealism" drifted. People remembered the melty clocks, but forgot they came from the subconscious, so for those outside the movement, "surreal" became a synonym for "bizarre and [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarish]]".
If the world looks mundane but [[Fridge Logic]] makes you wonder why people aren't making more of a fuss about some of the stuff going on then it's probably [[Magic Realism]]
Compare [[Uncanny Valley]] and [[Eldritch Abomination]]. See also [[Surreal Horror]] and [[Surreal Humor]]. Also compare [[Dada|the (anti)-art movement]] that preceded and inspired it.
▲=== Surrealist art contains examples of: ===
* [[Alchemy]]
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]
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