What is Surrealism?

As defined by the Collins Concise Dictionary,
Surrealism: a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially from Dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements
Surrealism became dominant in Europe between the 1920s and 1930s although greatly diminished after World War II. It grew from the earlier Dada movement which was a Western Europe artistic and literary movement that was based on based on the principles of individualism, visions, states of disorientation, nihilism, chaos and the irra…