Anticolonial revolutionary writers in the Négritude movement of Martinique, a French colony at the time, took up Surrealism as a revolutionary method-a critique of European culture and a radical subjective.

In 1942, following the success of shows by Ernst, Miró, Tanguy, and Salvador Dalí, who had immigrated to the United States because of the war, Surrealism took New York by storm.

In 1933 Domínguez met André Breton, a theoretician of Surrealism, and Paul Éluard, known as the poet of this movement, and took part a year later in the Surrealist exhibition held in Copenhagen and those of London and Tenerife in 1936.

Surrealists revived interest in Isidore Ducasse, known by his pseudonym Comte de Lautréamont, and for the line " beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella ", and Arthur Rimbaud, two late 19th century writers believed to be the precursors of Surrealism.

Though Surrealism was a direct influence on Magic Realism in its early stages, many Magic Realist writers and critics, such as Amaryll Chanady and S. P. Ganguly, while acknowledging the similarities, cite the many differences obscured by the direct comparison of Magic Realism and Surrealism such as an interest in psychology and the artefacts of European culture they claim is not present in Magic Realism.

Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols ( for example, ovoids with wavy lines emanating from them ), Miró's style was influenced in varying degrees by Surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership in any artistic movement in the interwar European years.

Formed with a unifying doctrine of complete freedom of colour and form, as well as antipathy towards Surrealism, the artists also shared an interest in Marxism as well as modernism.

As a book publisher, his interest in Surrealism led him to publish books on many artists including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and many others.

Varo soon joined a collective of artists and writers, called the Logicofobistas, who had an interest in Surrealism and wanted to unite art together with metaphysics while resisting logic and reason.

He included citations of the influences on Surrealism, examples of Surrealist works and discussion of Surrealist automatism.

" Les Automatistes " were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism.

André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, suggested that automatism and the description of dreams should play a greater role in the creation of literature.

Freud initiated the psychoanalytic critique of Surrealism with his remark that what interested him most about the Surrealists was not their unconscious but their conscious.

The Dada movement — which began in a café in Switzerland in 1916 — came to Paris in 1920, but by 1924 the writers around Paul Éluard, André Breton, Louis Aragon and Robert Desnos -- heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's notion of the unconscious -- had modified dada provocation into Surrealism.

The Dada movement — which began in a café in Switzerland in 1916 — came to Paris in 1920, but by 1924 the writers around Paul Éluard, André Breton, Louis Aragon and Robert Desnos -- heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's notion of the unconscious -- had modified dada provocation into Surrealism.

To the dismay of many, Documents fizzled out in 1931, just as Surrealism seemed to be gathering more steam.

Several of these artists, like Roberto Matta ( by his own description ) " remained close to Surrealism.

Shaped by both Golden Age writers such as Francisco de Quevedo and, like many Spanish poets of his era, by European vanguard movements, notably by Surrealism, he joined a generation of socially conscious Spanish authors concerned with workers rights.

However, it did not follow the general guidelines of an “ ism ” ( Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism ), nor did it adhere to the principles of art schools like the Bauhaus ; it was a collective project, a joint enterprise.

They drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the action painting of their friends in the New York City art world circle like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Cortázar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, and his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism and the French New Novel-as Composition nº 1 ( 1962 ), by Marc Saporta ( 1923-2009 )-, as well as the " riffing " aesthetic of jazz and New Wave Cinema.

), shows his awareness of Pittura Metafisica and Surrealism in a psychoanalytical painting where the elongated being in the foreground penetrates what was apparently a real landscape, until it tears like a backdrop ; another painting, Forum of Inward-turned Optics ( 1948 ; Vienna, Hist.

In 1946, renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto Surrealism in Full Sunlight.

Breton published Surrealism and Painting in 1928 which summarized the movement to that point, though he continued to update the work until the 1960s.

It stressed his connections to Surrealist methods, offered interpretations of his work by Breton, as well as Breton's view that Duchamp represented the bridge between early modern movements, such as Futurism and Cubism, to Surrealism.

However, Conroy Maddox, one of the first British Surrealists whose work in this genre dated from 1935, remained within the movement, and organized an exhibition of current Surrealist work in 1978 in response to an earlier show which infuriated him because it did not properly represent Surrealism.

For the work of other postmodernists, such as Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, a broad comparison to Surrealism is common.

Magic realism, a popular technique among novelists of the latter half of the 20th century especially among Latin American writers, has some obvious similarities to Surrealism with its juxtaposition of the normal and the dream-like, as in the work of Gabriel García Márquez.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.

Yet in her earliest works, such as Always at Your Excellency's Service, painted in 1961, Rego was strongly influenced by Surrealism, particularly the work of Juan Miro.

In his work, the influence of Surrealism was discernable, as well as that of Henri Matisse.

Surrealism helped Carpentier to see contexts and aspects, especially those of American life, which he did not see before and after working among the leading artistic figures for some time, Carpentier did not feel overly enthusiastic about his work within surrealism and had felt that his “ surrealist attempts ha been in vain ” describing his frustration, as he felt he had “ nothing to add to this movement in France ".

It is famed as the first work of literary Surrealism.

In 1951, Ende met the " pope " of Surrealism, André Breton, who admired his work and declared him an official Surrealist.

This body of work is characterized by what the artist termed “ bouncing objects, floating things ,” such as a radically oversized red bird and glass hovering in front of a simple background in the work and have a strong affinity to Surrealism, a recurring theme in the artist ’ s career.

Her work is related to French Tachisme, American Abstract expressionism, and Surrealism — as were many of her contemporaries who were painting in Post-War Paris during the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s.

Alvarez Bravo ’ s early work was influenced by European Cubism, French Surrealism and abstract art.

His introduction to Surrealism and Neo-Plasticism influenced his work and caused him to test the abstraction of geometric forms.

Wesley himself considers his work to be aligned with Surrealism, and many of his paintings since the 1960s have taken this dimension yet further, while retaining an extremely limited range of colors and a sign-like flatness.

He was loosely grouped with the Precisionist movement and, though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, his most lasting work is of a realist nature.

Monnerot perhaps makes it the original document of what is later called ' black Surrealism ', although it is the contact between Aimé Césaire and Breton in the 1940s in Martinique that really lead to the communication of what is known as ' black Surrealism '.

In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, " Le Grand Jeu " with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.