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Surrealism began as a literary movement after World War I. Its writings were based on the nontraditional and for this reason they were naturally drawn to the Dadaist. It was an international movement during the World War I., which declared itself against art, responding to the absurdity of the war and the insanity of the world. This 20th century style was based on series of free associations symbolizing the unconscious mind. From the beginning Surrealism showed two distinct areas of working method: Illusionistic Surrealism by artist such as Salvador Dali, which dealt with irrational content and metamorphoses of the dream state. The other was called Automatist Surrealism, which was a direct outgrowth of the automatic writing. The art of Salvador Dali is an extreme metaphor at a time when only the extreme will do, because the 20th century gave birth to an increasingly surreal world. His painting