This is an artist's statement from one of Leonora Carrington's exhibitions. It's a soft and kindly "fuck you with all your machinations." — frank

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.[1] Its aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality".[2][3][4]

Works of surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.

Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory. — Wikipedia

Carrington painted without any interest in communicating with her audience.She just painted the images that came to her. She didn't expect to become a famous artist because gender bias in the art world so strong in her lifetime, so her art was first and foremost personal to her. — frank

That was Dora, not Leonora. — frank