The Dada/Surrealism movement is referred to as an anarchist movement against art, which at the time was considered another representation of bourgeois power. (Gombrich 593-594) "The Menaced Assassin' reflects two abiding preoccupations of the Surrealists," writes Gablik Magritte. (Gowing 884) (Gowing 885) (Anderson 1170-1172) You must begin to dream. (Gombrich 591) (Gowing 887) Dali's "paranoiac-critical method" gave his work a pseudo-Freudian twist, and his new work became much like the rest of Surrealist art, paintings of "private fetishes." (Gowing 887)
             Eventually Dali, along with Magritte and the other Dada artists, was excluded. In the end, in Breton's attempt to keep Surrealism out of the fascist, anarchist world and keep it in the world of the Freudian dream state was a failure. Breton actually moved Surrealism into the anarchist's world that Dada's Tzara had created.
             New York NY: Harper & Rowe. Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, London: Phaidon Press Limited (1995), pp. 589-593.
             A History of Art. The Harper American Literature, Vol. 2. Dictionary of the Arts.
             http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html Dadaism by Tristan Tzara
             Surrealism moved the humanity out of the romantic and classical notions of life and creativity into a world of ongoing and escalating anarchy and devastation. Regardless of its enduring influence on art, Surrealism may never have occurred without the founders of the Dada movement. (Varisco)
             In accord with the Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924 -- written in collaboration with Andre Breton, companion poet and dramatist Tristan Tzara wrote in the Zurich Chronicle: "Let us destroy let us be good let us create a new force of gravity. NO equals YES. Dada means nothing . . . and I hate good sense." (Varisco 139(10)) This created the basis for artists Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Sherman Anderson, and every radical of the early 20th Century. Moreover, although t...