Surrealism

= a 20th-century avant-garde movement that aimed to revolutionize human experience by blending dream, reality, and the unconscious mind, often creating illogical, bizarre, or dreamlike imagery. Founded by André Breton in 1924, it uses techniques like automatism (automatic, uncontrolled drawing) and strange juxtapositions to break free from rational thought and social conventions; it has developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I.