ART 2D TERM PAPER German Expressionism and Surrealism German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism, both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting, which developed in reaction to the dormant academic standards of the previous century, discarded refined pictorial naturalism in favor of direct emotional expression characterized by bold distortions of form and …showed first 75 words of 1373 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1373 total…bsolute reality, a surreality." Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike. This movement continues to flourish at all ends of the earth. Continued thought processes and investigations into the mind produce today some of the best art ever seen. Words: 1483