Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that originated in Paris in 1924 by André Breton, a French poet, from his Manifesto of Surrealism. The style is marked by perverse, bizarre, irrational, hallucinatory juxtapositions and non sequiturs. Surrealism employs a method of visual expression by personifying and convoluting ordinary objects and turning them into strange, severe or demented representations that provoked shock, sympathy, incomprehension and even disgust from an audience.