“Accidental Surrealism”: 50 Unbelievable Pictures That Make One Do A Double Take (New Pics)

I bite the apple just like Eve. Oh silly girl, you should never accept sweets from a stranger; guess your father didn’t tell you that… Just that you should steer clear of one tree. But forbiddance creates temptation that we then work hard to conceal within our subconscious minds. However, one artistic movement became the key to these shut doors. Surrealism is its name.

All those years ago. At least 122 years, if we are to be contemplatively specific. Creative thinkers have always toyed with reality, but in the early 20th century Surrealism emerged as a philosophic and cultural movement.

Iván Correa, a surrealist visual artist, will be walking us through the complexities of this artform through his own experience of it. His artworks aim to reflect "the collective unconscious and the eternal conflict between order and chaos," by showcasing "timeless mystical images, through a new mythology, where dreams become very important."

He told Bored Panda that surrealism helps us confront conscious and unconscious issues, intuitively leading us towards a set of actions.

The same snakes tell their tale. Jackie Craven, art and architecture expert, argues that Marxist ideas sparked a disdain for capitalist society and a thirst for social rebellion. The writings of Sigmund Freud suggested that higher forms of truth might be found in the subconscious. Moreover, the tragedy of World War I spurred a desire to break from tradition and explore new forms of expression.

Of love, and gore, and more. Surrealism allows individuals to tap into their subconscious, and to process their internalized thoughts. For many, such explorations led to the creation of shocking, graphic and provocative imagery.

Iván's art showcases these notions perfectly. "What attracts me to surrealism is the feeling of restlessness, mystery and tension of dreamlike images," he said.

"I play with the ambiguity of the flesh, the duality of life and death, the static and the mobile. Since my youth, without a doubt, I have been influenced by surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Bosch, Max Ernst, Zdzislaw Beksinski," he continued.

I lose myself towards the pit. As discussed on Tate.com, Surrealism aims to revolutionize the human experience, balancing a rational vision of life with one of the unconscious and dream-like in the search for freedom from imposed values and norms. It first started as a literary movement. Louis Aragon (1897–1982), Paul Éluard (1895–1952), and other poets experimented with automatic writing, or automatism, to free their imaginations. What that involves is losing conscious thought and writing whatever comes to mind; doesn’t mean it’s purposeless or nonsensical, though.

Of hell, they say, I say of mirth. A devout Marxist, André Breton believed that art springs from a collective spirit: The real functioning of thought and absence of all control exercised by reason. Philosopher Peter Carruthers insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions altogether, arising from processes of which we are forever unaware.

Iván brought us closer to his methods of creation, which reflect all this philosophy and history that we keep touching upon. "One of them starts with random strokes, without lifting the pen from the paper and without looking at it," he said. "Through automatic drawing, from the apparent chaos of my random strokes emerge powerful and disturbing images that I complete, incorporating very personal symbolic elements."

The second is what he calls the fumage technique. "Starting from a little controlled soot stain (generated by bringing the flame of a moving candle close to the paper), I draw in negative with different tools such as scalpels, metal tips used in intaglio engraving, bird feathers, rubber pencils or damaged brushes," he revealed. "The shapes suggested to me by the random soot stains are never consciously controlled, which makes this technique a suitable language to confront my own unconscious."