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The Surrealist Impulse

The early 20th-century movement surrealism was groundbreaking for its time. Developed in response to the travesty of World War I, the art and literary phenomenon invigorated artists and thinkers to explore dreams, the irrational and uncanny, and the poetic in their works. These principles reverberate in the 21st century, where surrealism remains a chief inspiration.