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 "I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning, but I know...

...that something in it has meaning and that is man."    Albert Camus

Edward Hopper

What is sorealism?

Is it just a state of mind?
The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe. With over a billion neurones, each capable of at least ten thousand connections, there are more permutations to the human mind than there are particles in the universe.

Science constantly shows us... there's nothing more trippy than reality

So sorealism is a return to reality, but with a bang. Theoretically, it's not unlike realism, but without the complacency or self satisfaction. In the arts, Sorealism is like magical realism, but without the bad bits - i.e. the magic.

And how do you know a sorealist politician? He's the one who inhales

Gabriel Garcia Lorca

Some sorealist heroes and precursors

Forerunners of the soreal
We know Lorca is there somewhere. And Grahame Greene and Ricky Gervais. But what  Albert Camus? Edward Hopper? Dennis Hopper? Your uncle Brian? Homer? And which one? The yellow one?

The main criterion for inclusion is someone who's ingrained ideas have been challenged, changed, and widened in the encounter with intractable reality. Open mindedness, multiplicity, uncertainty would probably be key characteristics, but hey...

By definition, as sorealists, we're open to anything.

 
Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera

Send us some of your soreal moments

How soreal can you get?
Our principle is that reality is always much more bizarre than anything you can make up....

So rather than make up in advance what is soreal, who's a sorealist, and what the true definition of sorealism is, we're asking you to define it.

Let us know the best sorreal moment. It may be an anecdote from your person life, or a story from the news. Funny, tragic, inexplicable? It certainly will be uncertain, and hopefully fun.

Help build this movement and encourage other to tell it how it is.

 
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some early sorealist exhibits

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First two sorealism founders: Peter Jukes and Marcos D'Cruze. Copyright © 2006 Sorealism.com. All rights reserved. Revised: 08/29/06