From the French surréel, “transcending the real,” a term coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917, but now used for a movement founded by André Breton in 1924, which absorbed the French Dada movement and made positive claims for methods and processes (defiance of logic, shock tactics) which Dada used merely as a negation of conventional art. Influenced by Freud, it claimed to liberate the riches of the unconscious through the primacy of dreams and the suspension of conscious control (Automatism). Initially literary, it found its artistic expression in Collage and Frottage (Max Ernst), in so-called Veristic Surrealism (fantastic subjects painted in obsessive detail by artists such as Salvadore Dalí and Yves Tanguy) and through a freehand abstraction based on Automatism (André Masson) which influenced Abstract Expressionism.