surrealism: a starting point

game: "definitions"

Player 1 writes a question beginning with "what is" and conceals it from Player 2. Player 2 writes an answer.

EXAMPLES
What is physical love?
Half of pleasure.
What is reason?
A cloud eaten by the moon.
Text will be masked by asterisks.

Player 1

Player 2

game/examples adapted from Alastair Brotchie's A Book of Surrealist Games

"If there is one activity in Surrealism which has most invited the derision of imbeciles, it is our persistent playing of games..."
  poets
Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy
more Surrealist poets

painters
Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro
samples at Jim's Fine Art Collection

 
Surrealism in the Encyclopedia Britannica
background inspired by rene m agritte
"our heads are round so that our thoughts can fly in any direction" franci s picabia

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