Surrealism in Europe was born between the two World Wars.
Many of the surrealists had experienced first-hand the horrors of World War I. If this, which must have felt like the end of the world, was where logic and reason had led us, what were we missing?
Adolf Hitler had his own opinion of surrealist art:
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”
As a species we are perhaps never more dangerous than when we know all there is to know.
What is negative capability?
A street no one drives down
Question Michelle Tennison, Answer Paul Miller (2014)
Who is writing this story?
The center of a labyrinth
Question Michelle Tennison, Answer Beverly Borton (2016)