Key Influences on Surreal Photography from 1920 to Present

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What have the key influences been on surreal photography from 1920 still present date?
Based within poetry, visual arts and writing, the surrealism movement developed during
the era among World war 1 and World war 2. Being one of the most influential creative
movement in the 20th century, the surrealist artist channelled the unconscious mind for revealing
their power of imagination turning away from the context of realism and rationalism. Surrealism
was introduced by Salvador Dali highlighting the importance of the provision of reality to the
quality of dreams and fantasies. According to the author Wright, it was essential being the way
of realising the quality of dreams and fantasies in a country and David way of evaluating them in
the reality (Jałocha 2016). The context of photo surrealism has evolved as an efficient tool in
printing, advertising and some of the other formats simultaneously flowing to the consciousness
of the viewers or to several types of weavers from age all decade till the current time.
Writer Guillaume Apollinaire invented the idiomatic phrases ' Surrealism ' in 1917 to
characterize his own opera ' Les Mamelles de Tiresais ' and the ballet ' Parade ' by Jean Cocteau.
Surrealism is "reality over and above realism" as per the Apollinaire (Moschovi and Supartono
2018). Surrealism has originated in the late 19th century and as a literary movement that readily
experimented with some of the new modes of expression which is called automatism that's ok to
release the unbridled imagination composed in the subconscious mind of a human being. The
concept of surrealism became and political and international intellectual movement after the
publication of the manifesto of surrealism by Andre Breton.
In the era of 1920 the concept of surrealism was not well accepted by many of the
political ideologies, philosophers and poets. The surrealist poets where at first reluctant to align
themselves with the artist due to their belief of laborious process of drawing and sculpting that
some of the uninhibited expression. Some of the visual artist first work with the concept and the

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technique of surrealism where German Max Ernst, Spaniard Joan Miro, American man Ray and
Andre Masson (Moorhead 2017).
There has been several of the factors that has made photo surrealism as an important and
practical tool and also useful in current days platform. The cost related to advertising makes it
practical for sending messages in an image as possible. The short attention span of the weavers is
much required for the modern art of advertisement condensing in the trilateral symbols.
According to researches, surrealism photography in the advertising aid the viewers for building
up an association to the brand or the product the image soon becomes involved and also with the
product in case view similar image remembering the actual product. This entire concept follows
the use of celebrities for endorsing any specific product in advertisement (Battiston 2015). Some
of the strategies that has been adopted and has served as influential factors in the current decade
includes the use of eroticism, humour and popular persons. Another strategy is out spending the
competition placing single issues of a magazine and with the use of effective images through
photo surrealism.
Surrealism reflects a cross-piece of avant-garde concepts and methods, such as the
implementation of chance components in art works that modern artists now use today. These
techniques created a fresh way in which the abstract expressionists followed painting practice.
As in the undescribed, the aspect of opportunity has also become essential to success (Diack et
al. 2016). The occurrences of the 1950s and also to randomized computer design. A group of
artists who work today, such as Glenn Brown, who has already effectively reclaimed Dalí's art
into his work, have been fed by the Surrealists ' focus on memories, psychoanalysis and
wonderful illustrations.