Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100

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Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 features the centenary celebration of the Surrealist movement founded in 1924 while still applied by contemporary artists today. In his manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the springboard to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by incorporating dreamscapes, applying Freudian psychoanalysis and presenting non-sequiturs of free associations manifested as metamorphosis and bio-morphic abstractions. Automatic creativity was central to the artists for tapping into the sub-conscious mind.

The movement and its centenary exhibition both originated in Paris, with The Centre Pompidou commemorating the occasion by hosting “Surrealism”  an exhibition in 2024-25. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will be the only U.S. venue for this traveling exhibition from November 8, 2025–February 16, 2026, featuring approximately two hundred works by more than seventy artists. Paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents associated with the international Surrealist movement, with important works by Dali, Miro, Tanning, Magritte, Ernst, and many other artists are included in the exhibition, and featured as the subject of this visual presentation by Professor Thomas Germano.