He was influenced by the French Symbolist school of poetry and surrealist art. At university, Ballard was writing avant-garde fiction heavily influenced by psychoanalysis and surrealist painters. In 1940 Yves Tanguy married American Surrealist painter Kay Sage. Masson painted a surrealist, allusive version of . The movement aimed to go beyond the conventional surrealist ideas by embracing absurdism. Many of its programs are aesthetically experimental, transgressive, improvised, and surrealist in nature. Drawing from Surrealist and Situationist movements, their songs have political and philosophical themes. Nesuhi was an avid collector of Surrealist art. Quirke writes for television with surrealist playwright Robin French. The advertisement was notable for featuring both fetish and surrealist imagery. Also hired for the project was Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger. Both collections form one of the most important bodies of Surrealist art in Europe. It is now part of the private collection of Surrealist art collector Daniel Filipacchi. "Our Ancestors", a collection of moral tales told through surrealist fantasy. The importance of the dream as a reservoir of Surrealist inspiration is also highlighted.