According to Andre Breton “surrealists strive to attain a “mental vantage-point (point de l’esprit) from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, communicable and incommunicable, high and low, will no longer be perceived as contradictions.” Reading this left me shocked, and left me with an hunger to obtain these visual images for myself to judge. 
(Not Andre Baton’s work, just a surrealism picture)
When looking at the above picture the quotation comes to life. The real and the imageniry contradict each other, which is a theme thats realy a life in this picture. Andre Baton one of the original artists, living from 1896-1966, I continued to read his biography only to find out that this man took pshycology courses and applied that pattern of thinking to surreleasim, and even at one point proclaiming the artistic paintings of the demented to be art, leaving me to think maybe this man, himself can not see the fine line between real or imaginary. One thing that stood out when reading his biography was the fact that this man published books, plenty of books, it seems Mr. Baton published a book every three or four years. Remarkable, to see that this man can produce like this, as if he has no limit to his imagination, is that one of the elements of being a surrealism artists, unlimited imagination.
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