Surrealism is more than just an artistic style. It is a cultural movement that has expanded throughout the world. It was a revolution that questions reality. Surrealism was a revolutionary movement, it was revolutionary because it sought meaning in dreams and reality because it was not done, and it was revolutionary because André Breton, who wrote the manifesto, also wrote La Révolution surréaliste. La Révolution surréaliste otherwise known as The Surrealist Revolution, openly defined surrealism as a revolution, stating: “It is necessary to begin work on a new declaration of the rights of man.” Surrealism argued that to understand the world and give meaning to reality and existence, it is necessary to create a belief system to justify the world. However there is still a point where life will cause a feeling of meaninglessness and things will happen uncontrollably without any obvious explanation. Suddenly, due to surrealism, the vastness of the unknown, the void left by the "death of God", a statement taken up by a German philosopher, Friedrich Nietsche, in ...
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