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surrealism

Surrealism is a modern movement in art and literature that tries to express the subconscious mind. (noun)

An example of surrealism is the works of Salvador Dali.

See surrealism in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a modern movement in art and literature, in which an attempt is made to portray or interpret the workings of the unconscious mind as manifested in dreams: it is characterized by an irrational, fantastic arrangement of material

Related Forms:

surrealistic adjective
surrealist adjective, noun
surrealistically adverb

See surrealism in American Heritage Dictionary 4

sur·re·al·ism

noun

A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
Literature or art produced in this style.

Origin: French surréalisme : sur-, beyond (from Old French; see sur- ) + réalisme, realism (from réalité, realism, from Medieval Latin reālitās, from reālis, real; see real ¹).

Related Forms:

surrealist sur·reˈal·ist noun

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