Proto-Surrealism
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| - | [[Image:Reverse Side Of a Painting.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Reverse Side Of a Painting]]'' (1670) by [[Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts]]]] | + | [[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: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:Bracelli.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|From the ''[[Bizzarie di varie figure]]'' ([[1624]]) by [[Giovanni Battista Braccelli]]]] | ||
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- What is Surrealism?, a 1934 lecture by André Breton.
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 Lautreamont 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 Bracelli in the visual and Lucian in the literary field.
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