Absurd Adjective: --wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate: completely ridiculous --having no rational or orderly relationship to human life Noun: an absurd state of affairs.
The Absurd and Social Commentaries
Hyperbolic Logical Fallacies Absurdity as a Device Hyperbolic Logical Fallacies
Absurdism and Non Sequitur
Breaking Social Conformity Anecdotes in which characters take socially unacceptable actions to confront socially accepted emotions.
Absurdism life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason
Camus, Kafka, and Absurdism Camus (possibly the greatest Existential novelists) believed that Kafka was the first to perfectly marry Absurdism to Existential ideals – both in a philosophical sense and a literary sense.
Franz Kafka Albert Camus
Surrealism
Gala Éluard, 1924 Max Ernst (French, born Germany, 1891–1976) Oil on canvas 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006 (2006.32.15) © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo: This Is the Color of My Dreams, 1925 Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) Oil on canvas; 38 x 51 in. (96.5 x 129.5 cm) The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 (2002.456.5) © 2011 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Margritte, Rene. The Treachery of Images. Oil painting. 1928-1929. Los Angels’ County Museum of Art
Dali, Salvador. The Persistence of Memory. Oil painting. 1931.