Question

Surrealists attacked the emphasis placed on _________________.

Answer 1

Answer: A) or even all of them.

Explanation: When we put logic to work, we inmmediately identify a contrast like this. The sentence is making the statement that "surrealism" would be the central part of this question/answer, so the default option would be a negation, based on the concept of "attack".

But surrealism is even deeper than that, it´s not only the transformation of reality itself, but the creation of something completely new, bornt from the previous reality as a new set of "traditions, events, culture".

Answer 2

Answer:

D. All of the above

Explanation:

Surrealism is a cultural avant-garde movement that started in Europe in 1917 and flourished during the time between World Wars I and II, seeking to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Surrealists believed that the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination. They saw rationalism, which dominated European politics and culture, as something negative, something that brought destruction to Europe, and sharply criticized it. As realism, traditions and events are all related rationalism, we can say that surrealists were against them as well, so the statement D is the correct one.