All four were inspired by French Surrealists like Raymond Roussel, Pierre Reverdy and Guillaume Apollinaire.

Many first generation abstract expressionists were influenced both by the Cubists ' works ( which they knew from photographs in art reviews and by seeing the works at the 291 Gallery or the Armory Show ), by the European Surrealists, and by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Henri Matisse as well as the Americans Milton Avery, John D. Graham, and Hans Hofmann.

Also in February, Breton asked Surrealists to assess their " degree of moral competence ", and theoretical refinements included in the second manifeste du surréalisme excluded anyone reluctant to commit to collective action, a list which included Leiris, Georges Limbour, Max Morise, Baron, Queneau, Prévert, Desnos, Masson and Boiffard.

During the 1930s Peggy Guggenheim, an important American art collector, married Max Ernst and began promoting work by other Surrealists such as Yves Tanguy and the British artist John Tunnard.

Other Surrealists who acknowledged De Chirico's influence include Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte.

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.

With “ Ausgegraben ” the publisher sought to unearth forgotten authors, such as Max Hölzer, one of the few Austrian Surrealists.

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.

During this period he became friends with Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Paalen and Max Ernst, who would have the strongest influence on his work and most of the leading Surrealists.

The enormous success of this early work would create later problems for Oppenheim as an artist, and soon after its creation she drifted away from the Surrealists.

The movement in the mid-1920s was characterized by meetings in cafes where the Surrealists played collaborative drawing games, discussed the theories of Surrealism, and developed a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing.

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.

Early films by Surrealists include:

Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.

While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism.

The anticolonial revolutionary and proletarian politics of " Murderous Humanitarianism " ( 1932 ) which was drafted mainly by René Crevel, signed by André Breton, Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, and the Martiniquan Surrealists Pierre Yoyotte and J. M.

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

In this sense, Surrealism does not specifically refer only to self-identified " Surrealists ", or those sanctioned by Breton, rather, it refers to a range of creative acts of revolt and efforts to liberate imagination.

Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists.

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.

Photomontage survived Dada and was a technique inherited and used by European Surrealists such as Salvador Dalí.

" 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.

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 Surrealists wanted to create an exhibition which in itself would be a creative act and called on Marcel Duchamp to do so.

* 1942-First Papers of Surrealism-New York-The Surrealists again called on Duchamp to design an exhibition.

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.

Surrealism has had an identifiable impact on radical and revolutionary politics, both directly — as in some Surrealists joining or allying themselves with radical political groups, movements and parties — and indirectly — through the way in which Surrealists ' emphasize the intimate link between freeing imagination and the mind, and liberation from repressive and archaic social structures.

Though not an organized movement, Esslin grouped these playwrights together based on some similarities of theme and technique ; Esslin argues that these similarities may be traced to an influence from the Surrealists.

Don Salvador Dalí y Cusi strongly disapproved of his son's romance with Gala, and saw his connection to the Surrealists as a bad influence on his morals.

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.

In Perth between the 1987 tours, Salmon formed Kim Salmon and the Surrealists with Brian Hooper on bass and Tony Pola on drums.

Salmon formed the first lineup of the Surrealists in mid-1987, with Brian Hooper on bass and Tony Pola on drums.

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.

The time that Motherwell spent with the Surrealists proved to be influential on his artistic process.

Freud greatly influenced the 20th-century Surrealists, who combined the visionary impulses of Romantics and Expressionists with a focus on the unconscious as a creative tool, and an assumption that apparently irrational content could contain significant meaning, perhaps more so than rational content.

Lindall, wrote an article on " The New Surrealists " which appeared in the March 2006 issue of Art and Antiques Magazine ( March, 2006 ), tracing the continually evolving art form from the 1960s through today, citing several of the world's foremost artists.

Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.

In the frank discussion, more than a dozen Surrealists openly expressed their opinions on sexual matters, including a variety of perversions.

Penrose settled in Hampstead, where he was the centre of the community of avant-garde British artists and emigres who had settled there, and he opened the London Gallery on Cork Street, where he promoted the Surrealists as well as friends Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Naum Gabo.

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.