Like Dadaists, Surrealists do not accept rationality as they believe it to be the cause of unhappiness and injustice.

Surrealists have also drawn on sources as seemingly diverse as Clark Ashton Smith, Montague Summers, Horace Walpole, Fantomas, The Residents, Bugs Bunny, comic strips, the obscure poet Samuel Greenberg and the hobo writer and humourist T-Bone Slim.

Samuel Beckett was also fond of Surrealists, even translating much of the poetry into English.

During the Paris period he was also influenced by the French Surrealists.

Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.

Rimbaud's Illuminations was published in 1886, and subsequently his other works were also published, influencing Surrealists and Modernists during the Belle Epoque and after.

When the Scientists stopped, Salmon continued the Surrealists as his main band, while also playing in The Beasts Of Bourbon.

The work of Jarry, the Surrealists, Antonin Artaud, Luigi Pirandello and so on also influenced the work of playwrights from the Theatre of the Absurd.

Levy later gave Tanning two one-person exhibitions ( in 1944 and 1948 ), and also introduced Tanning to the circle of émigré Surrealists whose work he was showing in his New York gallery, including the German painter Max Ernst.

This is reinforced by the director's dream poetic and his use of objects, which are also characteristic of many canvasses by the Surrealists.

He was also a trustee of the Tate Gallery ; he organized a survey of Picasso's work there in 1960 and used his contacts to negotiate purchases of works by Picasso and the Surrealists at discounted prices.

Surrealists ' Top Chart ) also known as Nadrealisti ( Surrealists ) was a comedy radio broadcast on Radio Sarajevo during early 1980s and later a sketch comedy and variety show on TV Sarajevo in three separate installments from 1984 until 1991.

" As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line " tangerine trees and marmalade skies " from The Beatles ' track " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Some Surrealists consider automatism and games to be sources of inspiration only, while others consider them starting points for finished works.

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.

This linked with other Surrealists and was very important for the subsequent development of Surrealism as a revolutionary praxis.

Paul Auster, for example, has translated Surrealist poetry and said the Surrealists were " a real discovery " for him.

The Surrealists hailed what Dalí called his paranoiac-critical method of accessing the subconscious for greater artistic creativity.

When he returned to Paris, the Surrealists confronted him about his apology for a surrealist act.

Above all, he was moved by the impulse to penetrate the secret of natural beauty and to reinterpret it through its own means ; an attitude fundamentally different to that of David ... there results a truly personal and unique art admired as much by the Cubists for its plastic autonomy, as by the Surrealists for its visionary qualities.

This doomed poet's Les Chants de Maldoror became the seminal work for the Parisian Surrealists of Modigliani's generation, and the book became Modigliani's favourite to the extent that he learnt it by heart.

The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution.

Ionesco, Adamov, and Arrabal for example, were friends with Surrealists still living in Paris at the time including Paul Eluard and André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and Beckett translated many Surrealist poems by Breton and others from French into English.

De Chirico won praise for his work almost immediately from writer Guillaume Apollinaire, who helped to introduce his work to the later Surrealists.

At the outset of World War II, the Society for the Preservation of European Culture invited Onslow Ford to join the Surrealists in New York.

Onslow Ford, one of the few Surrealists who was an English speaker, was invited to give a series of lectures at the New School for Social Research and organized four important Surrealist shows in 1941.

Even leading Surrealists, amongst them André Breton, failed to grasp the joke and praised Magritte for this undertaking.

" These developments created a definitive split in Romania's avant-garde movement, and contributed to Contimporanuls eventual fall: the Surrealists and socialists at unu condemned Vinea and the rest for having established, through Marinetti, a connection with the Italian fascists.

In September 2006, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists ' reformed ' for a show in Spain at Azkena Rock Festival.

2010 marked the release of the " Grand Unifying Theory " album, the first Kim Salmon and The Surrealists record for 13 years.

The Dadaists and Surrealists later used irrationality as a basis for their art.

He is noted for work with The Scientists, and later with the Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists and Kim Salmon and the Business.

Shapiro introduced the young artist to a group of exiled Parisian Surrealists ( Max Ernst, Duchamp, Masson ) and arranged for Motherwell to study with Kurt Seligmann.

In the course of his association with the Surrealists and their attempts to transform automatic writing into drawing and painting, he created fumage – a technique for generating evocative patterns with the smoke and soot of a lit candle.

During World War II, Gottlieb encountered exiled Surrealists in New York and they added to and reaffirmed his belief in the subconscious as the well for evocative and universal art.

Shortly after releasing the first Surrealist Manifesto, the Surrealists published the inaugural issue of La Révolution surréaliste.

Surrealist Street filled one side of the lobby with mannequins dressed by various Surrealists.

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.

His meaning was that the manifestations of and experiments with psychic automatism highlighted by Surrealists as the liberation of the unconscious were highly structured by ego activity, similar to the activities of the dream censorship in dreams, and that therefore it was in principle a mistake to regard Surrealist poems and other art works as direct manifestations of the unconscious, when they were indeed highly shaped and processed by the ego.

For an article about Surrealist women artists, please see Women Surrealists.

The text concludes by asserting that Surrealist activity follows no set plan or conventional pattern, and that Surrealists are ultimately nonconformists.

Surrealists: Rimbaud ’ s poetry was " Surrealist before the word was invented or became a movement ".

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, donated in 1950, includes 36 works by Abstract and Surrealist artists, including works of Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, and Richard Pousette-Dart, and Surrealists works by Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, and André Masson.

La Révolution surréaliste ( English: The Surrealist Revolution ) was a publication by the Surrealists in Paris.