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[[File:Dalí The Christ of St. John of the Cross.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Dali's The Christ of St. John of the Cross]]
 
[[File:Dalí The Christ of St. John of the Cross.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Dali's The Christ of St. John of the Cross]]
 
'''Surrealism''' was an artistic movement that began in the early-1920s, as a reaction against the rationalism that resulted in the horrors of [[World War I]], and as an alternative to the irrational [[cubism]].  Poet Andrew Bretun published "The Surrealistic Manifesto" in 1924 to spearhead this movement, which strived for "an absolute reality, a surreality."<ref>The coining of the term Surrealism is credited to [[Guillaume Apollinaire]].</ref>  [[Salvador Dali]] popularized surrealism, and it has some similarities to the [[Book of Revelation]].
 
'''Surrealism''' was an artistic movement that began in the early-1920s, as a reaction against the rationalism that resulted in the horrors of [[World War I]], and as an alternative to the irrational [[cubism]].  Poet Andrew Bretun published "The Surrealistic Manifesto" in 1924 to spearhead this movement, which strived for "an absolute reality, a surreality."<ref>The coining of the term Surrealism is credited to [[Guillaume Apollinaire]].</ref>  [[Salvador Dali]] popularized surrealism, and it has some similarities to the [[Book of Revelation]].
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Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer. Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world. [http://all-that-is-interesting.com/most-iconic-surrealist-paintings]
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Surrealism captures [[infinity]] as no other art form does.  The intersection of the infinite and the finite, both space and time, is vividly on display in [[Salvador Dali]]'s The Christ of St. John of the Cross (Dali's painting to the right).
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{{cquote|Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer. Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world.}} [http://all-that-is-interesting.com/most-iconic-surrealist-paintings]
 
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Surrealism captures [[infinity]] as no other art form does.  The intersection of the infinite and the finite, both space and time, is vividly on display in [[Salvador Dali]]'s The Christ of St. John of the Cross:
      
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