# Surrealism

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An artistic and literary movement exploring the unconscious and unexpected associations. A screen interpretation can use impossible imagery while keeping the actual interaction understandable.

## Visual family
Art & image-making · 1924 onward. Editorial family: shared visual vocabulary, not a claim of common origin.

## Visual cues
- Unexpected association
- Dream logic
- Altered scale

## Build it
1. Build one meaningful impossible scene.
2. Keep navigation spatially stable.
3. Use captions when the image needs context.

## Example
A literary journal with a surreal cover image and conventional article navigation.

## Typography
Conventional typography can make the impossible image more striking. Distort a title only when the distortion carries an idea.

## Practical consequences
- Starting projects: Portfolio, Publication. These are suggestions, not restrictions.
- Reading/layout: spacious; bold visual emphasis.
- Asset work: One meaningful impossible image is the main creative investment.
- Complexity: high. Custom artwork or lettering is central to the full expression.

## Limits
Random visual oddity without an idea or making essential actions behave unpredictably.

## Reading the collected reference board
Look at the altered scale, improbable objects, and impossible spatial relationships. These are contemporary graphic interpretations of surreal imagery.

## Context
Twentieth-century movement. The recipe is a modern web adaptation.
[MoMA: Surrealism](https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/surrealism)

## Implementation files
- [page](/territories/surrealism/)
- [guide](/territories/surrealism/guide.md)
- [brief](/territories/surrealism/brief.md)
- [tokens](/territories/surrealism/tokens.json)
- [checks](/territories/surrealism/checklist.md)
- [example](/territories/surrealism/example/)
- [versionedGuide](/territories/v1/surrealism/guide.md)
- [versionedTokens](/territories/v1/surrealism/tokens.json)