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Definition:
Surrealism was a 20th century art movement which focused on depicting the very bizarre
and strange things which one would never encounter in real life, focusing on dreams and
hallucinations rather than nature.
Surrealism is generally considered to have started with the play Les Mamelles de Tiresias by Giullaume Apollinaire and Dali's paintings are among the most famous works characteristic of the surrealistic style.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
