Which art movement was most heavily influenced by Freud?
Arts · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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The art movement most heavily influenced by Freud's ideas was Surrealism. Founded by the French writer André Breton in the early 20th century, Surrealism sought to unlock the imagination by tapping into the unconscious mind. Sigmund Freud's theories on psychoanalysis, dream analysis, and the unconscious profoundly affected Surrealist artists and writers. They believed that the unconscious was a source of creativity and sought to express this through various methods, including automatic writing and drawing, as well as through symbolic and sometimes bizarre imagery in their artworks. Freud's work with free association, dream interpretation, and the role of the subconscious in determining human behavior provided theoretical grounding for the Surrealist perception of an alternative reality within the mind.