Paysage Catalan, Joan Miro
The word ‘Surrealism’ was coined by writer Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917. Surrealism, according to Apollinaire, is ‘truth beyond realism’.
After the World War I, artists and intellectuals were looking for an escape against the harshness of reality. They wanted to reform the world their own way, greatly influenced by Freud and Jung for instance, they sought to investigate through their mediums into the unconscious aspect of the mind. In 1924, the Surrealist group was formed; its principal members being Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Andre Breton.
Artists were very interested in portraying artistic expressions of the subconscious, dreams, hallucinations and all manner of the worlds of the inner psyche. The surrealists created artwork and, poetry at times under hypnosis and utilized the process of automatic, stream of consciousness writing. These processes often manifested surreal, dream-like and unconscious works.
Gala Of Spheres, Salvador Dali
To quote, Salvador Dali, "Surrealism is the symbolic language of the subconscious, truly a universal language, it doesn’t depend on education, culture or intelligence."
Deliberation, Mario Sanchez Nevado
Surrealism as an artistic movement of the past, has a profound and strong influence in the contemporary world of graphic design. The tools and ability to render the elements of the unconscious mind, from the world of dreams and the astral, to the well of unlimited imaginary worlds, can be more readily fabricated with the tools of our technological age, in ways the surrealist founders could only themselves dream.
The digital mediums, in combination with photographic technologies, with their advances, are the vehicle for elaboration of the subconscious with such profound realism and ability to alter as such, that the line between real and imagined is indistinguishable.
Temptation Mario Sanchez Nevado
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