surrealism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An early 20th-century art and literary movement that used dreamlike, fantastic images to express the unconscious mind.

   Surrealism rejected logic in favour of dreams and imagination.

2. 2
   noun

   A strange, dreamlike quality in art, regardless of the historical movement.

   The painting's surrealism left viewers unsettled.

From French surréalisme. By surface analysis, sur- + realism or surreal + -ism.

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