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Le surréalisme entre ombre et lumière

Marked by successive avant-garde movements and the Dada experiment, the artists gathered in Paris around André Breton brought about a profound renewal of imagery. Surrealism unfolded during a dark period, marked by the rise of extremism and authoritarian impulses across Europe. While Surrealist works lacked a unified visual ideology, they leaned toward an illusionistic representation of the artist's dreams, terrors, and fantasies.

The face thus became a bloated mask of expressions, conveying the anguish of the poet's soul. Distorted, these faces acted as portals between the artists' inner worlds and reality. Imbued with magical traditions, psychoanalytic readings, and literary references, Surrealist imagery reveals the full energy of a generation burning with a desire for freedom.