#surreal

• Surreal — Completely bizarre, astonishing, unbelievable, fanciful, or odd beyond the limits of ordinary logic; reminiscent of a magic trick or something magical through its complexity or strangeness; (pejorative sense) utterly confusing, incoherent, unintelligible, or lacking any rational foundation.
• Appollinaire — An alternative spelling variant (often encountered as a typographical error or historical transliteration form) for Guillaume Apollinaire, the famous 20th-century French poet, writer, and art critic. A prominent figure of the cultural avant-garde, he is globally recognized for inventing the calligram (structural visual poetry) and for his foundational role in theorizing Cubism and defining the term Surrealism.
• Arp — A German surname, famous in art history due to Jean Arp (Hans Arp), a French-German sculptor, painter, and poet, co-founder of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. In astronomy, it refers to Halton Arp and his 'Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'.
• Artaud — A surname of French origin, made famous in universal culture by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), an influential 20th-century writer, poet, essayist, and theater theorist. He is the creator of the revolutionary concept 'Theater of Cruelty' (Théâtre de la Cruauté), an avant-garde aesthetic doctrine that proposed abandoning classical literary text in favor of a physical, visceral, and ritualistic scenic language designed to shatter the spectator's consciousness and release subconscious forces.
• Automatist — As a noun, it designates an engineer or technician specialized in the field of automatics, responsible for implementing and maintaining autonomous control systems. As an adjective, the term describes an artistic movement, a creative method, or a follower of surrealism (specifically the Canadian 'Les Automatistes' school) emphasizing pure psychic automatism, generating pictorial or literary artworks directly from subconscious impulses.
• Automatist — As a noun, it designates a female engineer or technician specialized in automatics, responsible for designing and maintaining autonomous control systems. As an adjective, it represents the feminine motion for the artistic movement or creative method based on pure psychic automatism, specific to the surrealist movement (such as 'Les Automatistes' school), where the composition is directly guided by subconscious impulses.
• Avant-gardism — A generic term designating the totality of radical artistic, literary, and social movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (such as Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Constructivism). Avangardism is characterized by an anti-academic spirit of revolt, the absolute negation of tradition, the use of eccentric formal experimentation, and the desire to fuse art with everyday life through often provocative acts.