Breton, the first animator of Surrealism,officially founded the movement in 1924 when he wrote its manifesto, which stated that Surrealism is a “Pure psychic automatism, through which one proposes to express, by words or writing or otherwise, the real functioning of thought.
The Surrealists, from the earliest hour, promoted “the coupling of realities, apparently irreconcilable, on a plane that is apparently not convenient to them.” Breton, the first animator of Surrealism,officially founded the movement in 1924 when he wrote its manifesto, which stated that Surrealism is a “Pure psychic automatism, through which one proposes to express, by words or writing or otherwise, the real functioning of thought. Command of thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral concerns.” However, the term surréalisme had already been used, for the first time in 1917, by the poet and playwright Guillaume Apollinaire.