13 Facts About Surrealists

Surrealists wrote in a letter to Paul Dermee: "All things considered, I think in fact it is better to adopt surrealism than supernaturalism, which I first used" [Tout bien examine, je crois en effet qu'il vaut mieux adopter surrealisme que surnaturalisme que j'avais d'abord employe].

Surrealists admired the young writer's anti-social attitude and disdain for established artistic tradition.

Surrealists included citations of the influences on Surrealism, examples of Surrealist works, and discussion of Surrealist automatism.

Movement in the mid-1920s was characterized by meetings in cafes where the Surrealists played collaborative drawing games, discussed the theories of Surrealism, and developed a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing.

Surrealists's images, including set designs for the Ballets Russes, would create a decorative form of Surrealism, and he would be an influence on the two artists who would be even more closely associated with Surrealism in the public mind: Dali and Magritte.

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Surrealists revived interest in Isidore Ducasse, known by his pseudonym Comte de Lautreamont, and for the line "beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella", and Arthur Rimbaud, two late 19th-century writers believed to be the precursors of Surrealism.

Surrealists have often sought to link their efforts with political ideals and activities.

We Surrealists pronounced ourselves in favour of changing the imperialist war, in its chronic and colonial form, into a civil war.

Surrealists was one of the few intellectuals who continued to offer his support to the FCL during the Algerian war when the FCL suffered severe repression and was forced underground.

Surrealists refused to take sides on the splits in the French anarchist movement and both he and Peret expressed solidarity as well with the new Federation anarchiste set up by the synthesist anarchists and worked in the Antifascist Committees of the 60s alongside the FA.

Surrealists held his last one-man show in 2002, and died three years later.

Surrealism has had an identifiable impact on radical and revolutionary politics, both directly — as in some Surrealists joining or allying themselves with radical political groups, movements and parties — and indirectly — through the way in which Surrealists emphasize the intimate link between freeing imagination and the mind, and liberation from repressive and archaic social structures.

The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists never disbanded, and continue to publish their journal Analogon, which now spans 80 volumes.