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The Pompidou Centre in Paris has gathered about 500 Surrealist works from international public and private collections.
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00:00The soon-to-be-renovated Pompidou Center in Paris is showing a vast retrospective of Surrealist
00:09works to celebrate the 100th birthday of the movement.
00:14About 500 artworks from Picasso to Dali are on show in the exhibition that was first displayed
00:20in Brussels last spring.
00:26Surrealism is in fact the reaction of young people who have been sent to the war when
00:31they were 20 years old at least.
00:34And finally they came back and wanted to destroy the world who was this world, who had driven
00:41the civilization and the humankind to a destruction.
00:45So they wanted to build something completely new.
00:52The retrospective aims to show the scope of the movement, officially dissolved in 1969,
00:58with an emphasis on long-overlooked female artists.
01:05The message of Surrealism is quite simple, it is the apology of poetry.
01:10And what is poetry?
01:12It is a mixture of rationality, of thought and at the same time of imagination, of delirium.
01:18And it is this very simple equation that Surrealism has always repeated.
01:25This expanded exhibition will run until January 13, 2025 in Paris.
01:32It will then tour Spain, Germany and the United States.

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