"Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.

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- Andre Breton
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The Persistence of Memory
Young Virgin Autosodomized
by Her Own Chastity
The Castle of the Pyrenees
IMAGINATIVE NATURALISTS
5


Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Yves Tanguy
Andre Breton
Philippe Soupault
Louis Aragon
SURREALISM.
Noun. Masculine.
Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, be it verbally,
in writing, or by any other means, the true functioning of thought. Dictation of
thought without any control by reason and outside any aesthetic or
moral preoccupation.

-Andre Breton, The Manifesto of Surrealism. 1924.

Giorgio de Chirico
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Francis Picabia

SUBCONSCIOUS FORMALISTS
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Adultery is a virtue.
Incest is a virtue.
Murder is a virtue.
Rape is not a crime.
Pedophilia is not a crime.
Surrealism
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Freedom!!!
Truth!!!
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic.
There is only the real.

- Andre Breton
Existence!
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