Have you ever heard the word surreal? If not, surreal is about being beyond reality or more than reality. In the old times, they have this expression of saying "That's surreal!", everytime they saw an unbelievable things; those things you might think that only exist in our dream world.

Surrealism, on the other hand, is the literary movement founded by Andre Breton, he formed the group of surrealist which their goal is to "to create something bizarre and disjointed, but somehow understandable".

I want to share you this one, painting by Salvador Dali, one of the famous surrealist artist. Maybe you're familiar with him, the man with on fleek mustache. As you can see, he have here those melting clocks, also looks like a melted crescent moon with eyelashes and those big ants on the lower left side.

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This surrealism is one of my most favorite trend such as the Magic Realism(I'll explain this soon too). Why? Because this talks about the dream and reality being connected as one, and other two matters which are contradict to each other, but in the surrealism it became one. In short, we are going to make our dream real.

Surrealism doesn't follow a single form or method, it has it's own set of characteristics which can help you to determine and understand what surrealism is;

Automatism

This is a technique of doing without thinking (I also mentioned this before). During the time of Andre Breton World War 1 happened, he was sent as a medic and at that time he witnessed how everyone suffer from that war, even he himself. When the war finally ended, Andre Breton think about how they can start again after all those problems, trauma and depression that the war gave to them, until he form the surrealist group and use the automatism technique.

Automatism is so easy that everyone can be an artist and writer on their own. In the form of art, automatism can be use by showing what comes into your mind the moment you hold your tools through painting or drawing. To make this clear, I will give an example; Scenario 1, you are a painter and you are going to make an art using the common style we prefer, the beautiful and perfect art, so you will make a flower, green leaves, butterfly on the side, and lastly mountain and trees at the back. Your viewer will understand that your art is all about the beauty of nature, and every subject on it are connected to each other. Scenario 2, you are a painter and you are going to use the automatism technique, the moment you hold your brush, you immediately think about a flower, while making the flower it comes to your mind to draw a hand, so instead of leaves you have those hands, then again your mind think about putting spaceship at the back, so you add it, then another burning whale at the right side of the back. At the end, your viewers will get confused on what's your drawing about, but it's not about them, but your work on how your mind create while on the process of painting.

Poetic

In writing, they follow poetic style in a way that the writer doesn't follow a structural elements of the plot; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and Denouement. They also use imagery, those idiomatic expressions, to explain what's happening in the story, and other abstract ideas. It may not like the fictional poem which is written in lines and stanza but they interpret the story through figurative language.

Let me end the topic for todays video, I'll update the next part on the next day:)

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