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A visitor to the Tate Liverpool viewing Time Transfixed, oil on canvas by RenĂ© Magritte, 1938; during the exhibition âRene Magritte: The Pleasure Principle,â 2011.
The Surrealist Manifesto (or Manifeste du surréalisme) was written by the French poet and critic André Breton in 1924.123
As the primary spokesperson and a founder of the Surrealist movement, Breton used the manifesto to define Surrealism as "pure psychic automatism," intended to express the actual process of thought, free from the control of reason or aesthetic and moral concerns.12