Surrealism

The roots of surrealism were from Europe between the times of the end of World War I and the start of World War II. During this time, artists wanted to make art that was unrestricted to the normal styles, like Dadaism. This in turn caused a new art-form which is based off of multiple styles from the Romanticism period, as well as Dadaism. Surrealist artists worked to access their unconscious minds to make their art by using what they vividly remember from their dreams and recording trans states. Surrealism drew inspiration from previous cultures from different countries which had a huge contrast to their own culture.

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