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The unique nature of Welsh surrealism is what makes it still relevant today, says JEAN BONNIN
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THE subversion and revolt of Surrealism sprang from the embers of the Dada movement and its reaction to the atrocities of the first world war, when death and destruction ware experienced on a grotesquely industrial scale.
It was so beyond comprehension that Dada attempted to mirror the absurd uselessness of it all and its art, including poetry, was often satirical and nonsensical in form and content.
The term Surrealism was coined by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 and it was another poet, Andre Breton, who wrote The Surrealist Manifesto in1924.
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