At the turn of the last Century, certain artists felt that figurative art no longer responded to new realities, and that the work of art had to free itself. Pictorial art lost its function as a reproduction of reality, and gradually detached itself from standards to become more subjective. In other words, henceforth they were no longer to just [Read more]

The art of collage consists in conglutinating various materials on a medium, or even joining objects together, for example: scraps of paper, pieces of wood, photos, newspaper pages or little trinkets. The artist can equally polish off his work by adding to it a drawing or painting. We consider this form of art as a specificity of the 20th [Read more]

To take part in the pictorial revolution of the turn of the 20th Century, the followers of Cubist painting, the most famous of whom were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Francis Picabia, proposed an art in which objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in abstracted form, devoid any coherent sense of depth.

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Formed by a group of nonconformist artists, deeply marked by the atrocities of the W.W.I., the Dada movement, or Dadaism, was created as a means to put into question established standards, notably artistic thought. Its founders wished to shock the proponents of conformity and destroy conformism, which governed the arts of the day. Having [Read more]

"Pure psychic automatism by which we propose to express, either verbally, in writing or by any other means, the real functioning of thought in the absence of any control exercised by reason, outside any aesthetic or moral concern." André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)

French writer André Breton was the first to define the bases of the Surrealist movement in his work the "Surrealism Manifesto" in 1924. The movement, which owed its name to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, extended to all forms of art. Strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, Surrealism tried to translate thought [Read more]