Proto-Surrealism
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| + | [[Image:The Winter (1563) by Arcimboldo in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.jpg |thumb|left|200px|''[[The Winter]]'' (1563) by [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo|Arcimboldo]]]][[Image:Reverse Side Of a Painting.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Reverse Side Of a Painting]]'' (1670) by [[Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Un autre monde by Grandville.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Interplanetary Bridge]], [[Surrealism avant la lettre]] from ''[[Un autre monde]]'' ([[1844]]) by [[Grandville]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Bracelli.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|From the ''[[Bizzarie di varie figure]]'' ([[1624]]) by [[Giovanni Battista Braccelli]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:The red splodge representing the reign of Ivan the Terrible in Gustave Doré's 'The History of Holy Russia'.jpg |thumb|right|200px|[[The red splodge representing the reign of Ivan the Terrible in Gustave Doré's 'The History of Holy Russia']]]] | ||
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| - | :''[[What is Surrealism?]]'', a [[1934]] lecture by [[André Breton]]. | ||
| - | '''Proto-Surrealism''' is a term used for [[Surrealism]] [[avant-la-lettre]]. The immediate predecessor was [[Dada]]: collaborators included [[Hugo Ball]] (German actor and playwright); [[Jean Arp]] (Alsatian artist); [[Tristan Tzara]] (Rumanian poet); [[Marcel Janco]] (Rumanian artist); and [[Richard Huelsenbeck]] (a German poet). | ||
| + | '''Proto-Surrealism''' is a term used for [[Surrealism]] [[avant-la-lettre]]. Since the terms ''surrealism'' and ''surreal'' were coined only c. 1917, the surreal sensibility before that time was best described by the French term ''[[fantastique]]'', which includes [[fantastic art]]. | ||
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| + | Thought of as the effort of humanity to liberate imagination as an act of insurrection against society, Surrealism finds precedents in the [[alchemy|alchemists]], possibly [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Hieronymus Bosch]], [[Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade|Marquis de Sade]], [[Charles Fourier]], [[Comte de Lautréamont]] and [[Arthur Rimbaud]]. | ||
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| + | The immediate predecessor was [[Dada]]: collaborators included [[Hugo Ball]] (German actor and playwright); [[Jean Arp]] (Alsatian artist); [[Tristan Tzara]] (Rumanian poet); [[Marcel Janco]] (Rumanian artist); and [[Richard Huelsenbeck]] (a German poet). | ||
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| + | Earlier examples include the Italian engraver [[Giovanni Battista Braccelli]] in the visual and [[Lucian]] in the literary field. | ||
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| + | In "[[What is Surrealism?]]" (1934), [[André Breton]] mentions a list of proto-Surrealists and the New York exhibition ''[[Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism]]'' (1936-7) featured a section on proto-Surrealism and [[proto-dada]]. | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
| + | *[[Proto-]] | ||
| + | *[[Proto-Dada]] | ||
| + | *''[[Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism]]'' (1936) exhibition in New York | ||
| + | *''[[Quatre siècles de Surréalisme]]'' (1973) by Pierre Belfond | ||
| + | *[[Surrealist_Manifesto#List_of_proto-surrealists]] | ||
| + | *[[Erutarettil ]] | ||
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Proto-Surrealism is a term used for Surrealism avant-la-lettre. Since the terms surrealism and surreal were coined only c. 1917, the surreal sensibility before that time was best described by the French term fantastique, which includes fantastic art.
Thought of as the effort of humanity to liberate imagination as an act of insurrection against society, Surrealism finds precedents in the alchemists, possibly Dante, Hieronymus Bosch, Marquis de Sade, Charles Fourier, Comte de Lautréamont and Arthur Rimbaud.
The immediate predecessor was Dada: collaborators included Hugo Ball (German actor and playwright); Jean Arp (Alsatian artist); Tristan Tzara (Rumanian poet); Marcel Janco (Rumanian artist); and Richard Huelsenbeck (a German poet).
Earlier examples include the Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Braccelli in the visual and Lucian in the literary field.
In "What is Surrealism?" (1934), André Breton mentions a list of proto-Surrealists and the New York exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936-7) featured a section on proto-Surrealism and proto-dada.
See also
- Proto-
- Proto-Dada
- Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936) exhibition in New York
- Quatre siècles de Surréalisme (1973) by Pierre Belfond
- Surrealist_Manifesto#List_of_proto-surrealists
- Erutarettil
