Zu Zhang (edison): The Impact of Surrealism on the Art world

The birth of a new form of “reality” born from the psychology of Sigmund Freud and Dadaism spawning the manifestoes on surrealism by Andre Breton and has influenced the way artists have created art. Andre Breton was the father of Surrealism and his principal aim was ‘to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality’. Surrealism’s impact on the world does not stick to a certain type of art but to countless other fields and tries to liberate the imagination. The Style of Surrealism uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility.  Surrealism impacted all of the arts including: films, paintings, cartoons, and music. An enormous contribution to art from Surrealism was the poetic object- not a sculpture as it has traditionally been understood but a thing.  Surrealism has given the art world objects that can be the main focal point. The art used during the twenties used elements like common objects in order to provoke a shudder of strangeness and bafflement that has influenced cartoons in the forties. These cartoons include Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang. Even the animator for these cartoons, Robert Clampett, was known for using his style of surrealism in both story and visuals. The cartoons played in the forties were replayed in the seventies and expose more children to Surrealism. These cartoons influenced other cartoons to show programs that are out of the ordinary like pokemon with crazy animals, teenage mutant ninja turtles who are turtles who live in sewers, and even batman, a billionaire playboy who fights evil doers in a bleak looking New York City. Surrealism’s influence over art is evident in everyday life.  Music blends together with different types of instruments because people have tried to mix sounds together to make them out of the ordinary. Children see some sort of surrealism everyday when they watch cartoons or when they eat cereals with the different types of anthropomorphic animals. Movies with diverse and odd visuals capture the viewer’s attention and impacts the way they see normal objects in real life. There are countless different cultures around the world, but surrealism in art brings all of them together even though they have different explanations for it.

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