Flung Out Like a Fag-End by the Big Wigs

Surrealism emerged in the early 20th century as a cultural movement that encouraged a pure state of expression that was impulsive and automatic, and free from any intention or predetermination.

From the portfolio title page, written by writer and art critic André Parinaud (1924-2006): The Universe as seen by Dalí is but one Whole...In him, eccentricity vies with the keenest intelligence; his destructive will releases formidable creative powers...His vision is usually prophetic, and his intuitions on sciences, philosophy, and the future are those of a visionary...In the creative images which he now gives us as the tokens of the different phases of his astonishing career, we can see the most extravagant surrealist fresco...This is a series of images to be kept forever in man’s pristine memory. Dalí is Surrealism itself.