Béatrice Touchette

Hi and welcome to my Blog!  My name is Beatrice and I am interested in many subjects including art and culture.   For my first post, I would like to introduce you to a short essay I read on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website and give you my opinion on it. You may find the source here       Otto Umbehr, Mystery of the Street , 1928  Brief summary of the essay   Surrealism is an art movement in which imagination takes precedence to reason.   The movement was originally propelled by André Breton's first    Manifesto of surrealism  in 1924. Artists used their unconscious to reach the world of dream.   This process gave rise to themes like intoxication, madness, and sexual ecstasy. Thus, as a medium, photography was perfect to create provocative, psychic, and repulsive works.   To create this ambiguity between dream and reality, photographs used double exposure, combination printing, montage, and solarization ...