A Comparison Between Art Creation Basics in Surrealism and Transcendental Philosophy

This research is comparing Transcendent Philosophy doctrine as a mystical-philosophical school of thought in the creation of art with surrealism basics and methods of making art. In this process after a short introduction to three realms of the world and their correspondence with external and internal perceptive powers, it is explained that the creation of art is the result of the collaboration between external and internal perceptive powers. Then it is explained that images are created by representative faculty accommodating its reserves of external precipitations to estimative faculty and modification of imaginal faculty. Consequently, it is stated that quality if artistic creation depends on the quality and strength of those faculties. Then by studying surrealist methods of dreaming, hypnotism, automatism, and accident, it is concluded that everything surrealists have done due to achieving free mind state is, in fact, practicing Transcendental Philosophy theories, emphasizing that excessive focus on representative faculty contradicts Transcendental Philosophy doctrine as the surrealist experience shows it has affected artists’ mental health.