Surrealism, what is it? well according to the definition i found on Google surrealism is A 20th century avant-garde art movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Generally, Surrealism went against all the norms of art back in the day, and rather than creating things that an artist saw saw, they were able to be more imaginative and create things using their imagination. Without Surrealism, art would be vastly different, just based of off that concept, there would be no comics or as many cartoons, there would be less creativity because the birth of Sur