5 Surrealist Paintings to Spark Your Creativity

No, I’m not talking about artworks by Magritte, Dali, or Ernst

French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire coined the word “surrealist” (beyond reality) in 1917.

But it was André Breton, who defined surrealism in his surrealist manifesto —

pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason…