1920's Surrealism. Influence of Surrealism

Surrealism is one of the most notable event in social, cultural and other spheres of life of the XXth century. It sprang from 'Dada' and French poet André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism publication. The surrealism of 1920s was the period of movement's rise and it's ideas proliferation. The movement was formed under the influence of Sigmund Freud theories, the emphases was made on the unconscious, merge of perceived conscious reality with our unconscious dream state, reveal of the unconscious and it's harmonization with rational life.

The development of surrealism in 1920s was especially notable and it's ideas impacted not visual arts only but cultural, social and political life. The most bright representative of that period were Dali, Ernst, Magritte, and Miró. The influence of surrealism was especially notable on art, social behaviour, cinema and literature. Despite of the fact that the surrealism development peak is in the past already the movement's ideas have outlived it's founders and now find realization in creative works of various today's artists. It is also considered that1920's surrealism gave a stimulus to Conceptual Art and Situationist's formation and development.

If to analyze the spheres where the influence of surrealism was the most strong the arts are usually associated more frequently than other fields. In reality the goal of surrealism – to liberate imagination – can be traced in a number of creative works and even in everyday life of people struggling against limiting social conditions. The common features may also be found among surrealism and such figures Clark Ashton Smith, the obscure poet Samuel Greenberg and the hobo writer and humourist T-Bone Slim, such movement as Free Jazz (Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor etc.). Surrealism movement is grounded in the ideas of Hegel, Marx and Freud, and also finds precedents inDante, Hieronymus Bosch, Marquis de Sade, Charles Fourier, Comte de Lautreamont and Arthur Rimbaud.

Influence of surrealism in terms of politics is identifiable on radical and revolutionary movements, parties and groups. The evidence of such influence is the French revolt of May 1968 and also the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s movements. Some literary movements of the 20th had also experienced the influence of surrealism. These movements having common features with realism are identified as the Postmodern era, or Postmodernism. The novels of Latin American writers of the latter half of the 20th century also has similarities to Surrealism, the prominence of Magic Realism in Latin American literature is considered to be the result of the direct influence of surrealism.

The significant influence of surrealism, it's techniques often can be traced in the works of contemporary artists, musician, poets, writers, etc. Talking about visual arts it is possible to find out a number of painters worldwide following the ideas of the movement. By visiting klinkov.com web site one can view the collection of V.Klinkov works created under the influence of surrealism, abstraction, surrealism.