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Surrealist Abstraction
The Surrealist Incursion and its Influence on American Abstract Art of the 1940s

“Abstract Surrealism” is a term coined by André Breton to describe Surrealist painting that was predominantly abstract, but the term could just as easily be turned around. “Surrealist Abstraction” would imply a style of painting that approaches abstraction, while at the same time, retaining elements derived from the precedence of Surrealism. Works of this description developed in the United States during the early to mid-1940s, when a fairly large contingent of artists affiliated with the …