Surrealism in art imagessee: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/movements/195237 Surrealism began with founder Andre Breton as a literary movement before developing into an artistic one in the 1920s. Breton’s circle of poets and artists was deeply influenced by de Lautréamont’s vision of unexpected poetic combinations of objects. In their visual and written work the Surrealists explored Sigmund Freud’s notions of the dream-work and the uncanny. They stressed the relationship of the unconscious to lived reality and using techniques of psychic automatism as a way of tapping into the unconscious and detaching themselves from daily life thinking. For realizing an art of pure imagination, the Surrealist artists deployed the imagery of hysteria, primitive art, hallucinatory experiences, and phenomena associated with the radically other. This enabled them to make a revolution in everyday consciousness based on a critique of rationalist thought. This critique of the Surrealists took the form of disturbing images and juxtapositions to disrupt stable, conventional notions of form. Through the influence of Miro’s paintings and Jean Arp’s sculptures and reliefs, the abstract realm of biomorphic forms also became a primary element in much Surrealist work. Artists affiliated with Surrealism included, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Giacometti, , Frida Kahlo, Paul Klee, Dora Maar, René Margritte, Delvaux, Man Ray, André Masson, Matta, Yves Tanguy, and Dorothea Tanning among others.

Jean Arp, Overturned Blue Shoe with Two Heels Under a Black Vault   (Soulier bleu renversé à deux talons, sous une voûte noire), ca. 1925

Jean Arp, Constellation with Five White Forms and Two Black, Variation III   (Constellation aux cinq formes blanches et deux noires, variation III), 1932

Jean Arp, Head and Shell   (Tête et coquille) , ca. 1933

Jean Arp, Metamorphosis (Shell Swan), 1935

Jean Arp, Shell Crystal   (Coquille-cristal) , 1938

Jean Arp, Bust of Gnome   (Buste de Lutin) ,1949

Victor Brauner, The Surrealist   (Le surréaliste) ,January 1947

Victor Brauner, Consciousness of Shock, April 1951

Joseph Cornell, Fortune Telling Parrot (Parrot Music Box), ca. 1937–38

Joseph Cornell, Setting for a Fairy Tale, 1942

Joseph Cornell, Andromeda: Grand Hôtel de l'Observatoire, 1954

Joseph Cornell, Space Object Box: "Little Bear, etc." motif, mid-1950s–early 1960s

Salvador Dalí, Birth of Liquid Desires   (La naissance des désirs liquides) , 1931–32

Paul Delvaux, The Break of Day   (L'Aurore) , July 1937

Max Ernst, The Kiss   (Le baiser) , 1927

Max Ernst, The Forest   (La forêt) , 1927–28

Max Ernst, Zoomorphic Couple, 1933

Max Ernst, Attirement of the Bride (La Toilette de la mariée)   (L'habillement de l'épousée (de la mariée)), 1940

Max Ernst, The Antipope, December 1941–March 1942

Alberto Giacometti, Spoon Woman   (Femme cuillère) , 1926 (cast 1954)

Alberto Giacometti, Woman with Her Throat Cut   (Femme égorgée) , 1932 (cast 1940)

Julio González, "Monsieur " Cactus (Cactus Man I)   ("Monsieur " Cactus [Homme Cactus I]), Iron original completed August 24, 1939, Arceuil; cast 1953–54

Joan Miró and Josep Llorens Artigas, Alicia,1965–67

Wifredo Lam, Portrait of a Woman, 1944

Wifredo Lam, Rumblings of the Earth   (Rumor de la tierra) , 1950

Wifredo Lam, Zambezia, Zambezia, 1950

Fernand Léger, Composition with Aloes, No. 4(Composition à l'aloës, no. 4), 1934–35

René Magritte, Voice of Space   (La voix des airs) ,1931

René Magritte, Empire of Light   (L'empire des lumières) , 1953–54

André Masson, Man in a Tower   (Homme dans une tour) , 1924

André Masson, The Landscape of Wonders(Paysage aux prodiges), 1935

Matta, Years of Fear, 1941

Joan Miró, The Tilled Field   (La terre labourée) ,1923–24

Joan Miró, Painting   (Peinture) , 1925

Joan Miró, Personage   (Personnage) , summer 1925

Joan Miró, Landscape (The Hare)   (Paysage [Le lièvre]) , autumn 1927

Joan Miró, Dutch Interior II   (Intérieur hollandais) , summer 1928

Joan Miró, Untitled, August 1934

Joan Miró, Two Figures and a Dragonfly   (Deux personnages et une libellule) , February 1936

Joan Miró, Woman Doing Her Hair before a Mirror   (Femme se coiffant devant d'une glace),1938

Joan Miró, Seated Woman II   (Femme assise II) ,February 27, 1939, Paris

Joan Miró, The Flight of a Bird over the Plain III(Le Vol de l'oiseau sur la plaine III), July 1939

Joan Miró, Signs and Meteors, 1958

Man Ray, Four or Five Times   (Quatre ou cinq fois) , 1929

Man Ray, Needle and Thread, 1965

Yves Tanguy, Promontory Palace   (Palais promontoire) , 1931

Yves Tanguy, The Sun in Its Jewel Case   (Le soleil dans son écrin) , 1937

Yves Tanguy, There, Motion Has Not Yet Ceased(Là ne finit pas encore le mouvement), 194