According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto" in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike. -Web Museum Paris
Appariton of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a Beach
Slave market with the apparition of the Invisible Bust of Voltaire
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Couple with clouds in their heads
Autumn Cannibalism
The Visage of War
The Average Fine and Invisible Harp
Paranoic Critical Solitude
Phantom Cart
On Paranoic Critical Town
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