noun
Refers to the 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
ダリは超現実主義の代表的な画家だ。
Dalí is a representative painter of surrealism.
The French-derived loanword for surrealism, often used in art criticism. 超現実主義 is the native Japanese equivalent, more formal and less common in everyday speech.
Compound of 超 (chō, 'super-') + 現実 (genjitsu, 'reality') + 主義 (shugi, '-ism'), a calque of French surréalisme.