Surrealism became established in Britain in 1936. Surrealists thought that dreams and other altered states of consciousness would be the instruments for the creative liberation of poets and artists.
Surrealism was thought of as a revolutionary way of seeing the world and its champoins even had hopes of changing society along Marxist lines. Artists like Edward Wadsworth, Tristram Hillier, and John Armstrong were interested in the enigmatic and dream-like paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and Magritte, though British Surrealist art often retained stronger links with everyday experience or was combined with other styles of art from Cubism to the English tradition of Romantic landscape painting.
Surrealism was thought of as a revolutionary way of seeing the world and its champoins even had hopes of changing society along Marxist lines. Artists like Edward Wadsworth, Tristram Hillier, and John Armstrong were interested in the enigmatic and dream-like paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and Magritte, though British Surrealist art often retained stronger links with everyday experience or was combined with other styles of art from Cubism to the English tradition of Romantic landscape painting.
