When the Strange Is Familiar and the Familiar Strange: Surrealism Turns 100 The movement’s core message was and is one of championing radical freedom of thought and modern experiments in ...

Surrealists sought to bridge the conscious and unconscious mind through dream analysis and automatic methods of writing and painting, which often produced the disjointed, nonsensical imagery that ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic writing. A practice generated decades before but whose popularity was accelerated ...

The Dada and Surrealist movements are known for producing work that challenges reader-viewers’ perceptions of reality. These movements also prompted creators to experiment with unexpected mediums and ...