- Born as a literary movement whose objective was to create works outside of all logic and rational control.
- Search for the unconscious: Artists sought to discover everything hidden from human reason.
- Interpretation of dreams: the world of dreams was loaded with poetic material. In dreams, there is no reason.
- Automatic writing: Surrealist authors give free rein to their creativity in an uncontrolled and distant way from the authority of the mind and reason.
- Influence of Freud’s psychoanalysis: to talk about Surrealism is to talk about Freud and his studies on psychoanalysis.
- Denial of morality and conventions: Surrealists wanted to break all previous norms to free creativity and art.
- Art as a channel of knowledge: Therefore, art was the method that surrealists had to reach the irrational part of the human mind.
- Bizarre art: Many surrealistic artistic creations sought the bizarre.
- Give free rein to the imagination.
