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Breton drafted the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, declaring Surrealism as "pure psychic automatism," deeply affecting the methodology and origins of future movements, such as Abstract Expressionism. One of Breton's fundamental beliefs was in art as an anti-war protest, which he postulated during the First World War.
- French
- February 19, 1896
- Normandy, France
- September 28, 1966
1928: Le Surréalisme et la peinture (expanded editions in 1945 and 1965) – Published in English as: Surrealism and Painting; 1928: Nadja (expanded edition 1963) – Published in English as: Nadja; 1930: Ralentir travaux ["Slow down, men at work"] (with René Char and Paul Éluard)
Surrealism aimed to eliminate the distinction between dream and reality, reason and madness, objectivity and subjectivity. Breton’s novel Nadja (1928) merged everyday occurrences with psychological aberrations. L’Immaculée Conception (1930), written with Paul Éluard, attempted to convey a verbal impression of different types of mental ...
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André Breton: Surrealism and Painting. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002 - Art - 448 pages. Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and...
Victor Crastre describes Breton in 1924, age 28, having just produced the heroic first Surrealist manifesto, as already self-identified as “the Pope of Surrealism!”. The exclamation point conveys Crastre’s astonishment at the aptness of the analogy, despite Breton’s youth.
Apr 5, 2022 · It was the artist’s inner vision that intrigued him, rather than the skill with which line or colour was applied to canvas. ‘It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window,’ he wrote in Surrealism and Painting (1928), ‘and […] my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.’ As Rimbaud, Mallarmé ...
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Surrealism and Painting. André Breton. MFA Pub., 2002 - Painters - 415 pages. It contains Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic surrealism, with his...
