Surrealism was conceived as a cry.
The last exit and the only escape for a group of young men and women with nothing to lose, to confront the chaotic situation of France after the terrible consequences of the Ist World War.
Following his retreat from the Dadaist group, Andre Breton settled the guidelines for the development of a movement similar in the outlandishness to the current Avant-Garde, but absolutely different (even a negation of it) in the foundations, the mechanism and the reasoning.
Although Surrealism was a collective experience and it is not possible to understand it in another way, Andre Breton positioned himself as the leader, the so-called pope in the spotlight and behind the curtains, and in his early writings indicated the first demands and rules to be followed by his surrealist fellows.
His first Surrealist Manifesto, written in 1924, proposed new alternatives especially for the use of literacy and urged us to escape from any system of logic and analysis, declaring an open war against realism.
The Surrealists first aim was the achievement of freedom and the freedom of thought and the declaration of the supremacy of the dreams. Is in the realm of dreams where the mind is truly liberated and satisfied, a natural state, being the waking state a mere interruption.
In this first Manifesto, Breton encouraged us not to fear the madness and exalted the potential of our own uncontrolled imagination with no worries about moral conscience.
In the same way, this early text suggested the creation of an alternative moral and requested that the individuals avoid any obligation.