Surrealism explained

Women and Bird in the Moonlight 1949 by Joan Mir? 1893-1983

Miro from the article below by the Tate

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/surrealism

 

Extract from above:

Surrealism was a movement which began in the 1920s of writers and artists (including Salvador Dalí and René Magritte), who experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination