Constance Vepstas
Incongruous or impossible can easily describe surrealism. The imagination to dream and express dream-like situations as to recreate dreams is the realm of the surreal.
Is there anyone who has never had a dream? The unconscious can confuse and express situations we have and don't understand. The aesthetic rendering of these situations create fantastic fantasies as surrealistic art.
Surrealistic works of art are beautiful and challenging images we experience and many times do not understand. Surrealism was created to unlock the imagination. It was the surrealists who thought the rational mind repressed the imagination. The movement was to wake up the art world.
Things like disappointment, unexpected situations, war, sickness interrupt our living beyond understanding. It is not surprising that surrealism was born after World War I. Surrealism can be seen in different categories such as dreams, portraits, dark, conceptual. Surrealism can be called dream-like, strange and fantastic. Surrealism is beautiful and bizarre.
