User blog comment:EtherBot/RABBITS! -- Surreal Horror and the TERROR OF DREAMS/@comment-25941663-20180216142639/@comment-25941663-20180217005759

"A lot of good surrealism, is about making the scene off in ways that are...obvious"

I agree with that, maybe I didn't phrase myself correctly. What I meant is that artists should focus more on the feeling of their piece instead of what they are actually portraying. I will give you a real-life example:

If you go to a Halloween party, you will see people with funny-looking costumes. But you are not weirded out. There is fun in the atmosphere and everyone is having a jolly good time.

Now image that this is not Halloween and you just enter a random room and there are people dancing in costumes. That would feel weird, not just look the part.

That is, I think, where some surrealists go wrong. They pick some concepts and they mix them together in a picture, and they show us the picture. They think because it looks weird it's good. I think you need to go a bit deeper than that and somehow manage to create a scene that *is* weird. It's difficult, I know, but some people have done it.