Abstract
The word “Surreal” was coined by the poet/art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 -1918) and appeared for
the first time in the program notes for ballet parade a Ballets Russes production that entitled the talents of
Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie and Leonid Massine. Apollinaire also described his play the Breasts
of Tiresias as “Surreas”. However Apollinaire died six years before Andre Breton published his “manifesto
of Surrealism” and therefore his use of the word surreal may not be exactly the same as Breton‟s today we
associate the word „surreal” with strange just appositions or absurd combinations, like those experienced in
dreams. This concept belongs to Breton‟s interpretation of the word. In this Paper we also provide the result
on Surrealism movement by the survey on it.
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N. Seshadri
Research Scholar, Department of visual art SaiNath University, Ranchi.
Dr. Anup Kumar Chand
Department of visual art SaiNath University, Ranchi.
Received: 03-01-2016, Accepted: 15-02-2016, Published Online: 22-02-2016