Editing Surrealism (section)

==Alleged precursors in older art==
Various much older artists are sometimes claimed as precursors of Surrealism. Foremost among these are [[Hieronymus Bosch]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-bosch-describe-high-fashion-heavy-metal|title=Why Bosch Is Used to Describe Everything from High Fashion to Heavy Metal|last=Cohen|first=Alina|date=2018-04-24|website=Artsy|access-date=2019-04-23}}</ref> and [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]], whom Dalí called the "father of Surrealism."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.nationalpost.com/afterword/giuseppe-arcimboldo-the-prince-of-produce-portraiture|title=Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The prince of produce portraiture|website=nationalpost}}</ref>  Apart from their followers, other artists who may be mentioned in this context include [[Joos de Momper]], for some [[anthropomorphic]] landscapes.  Many critics feel these works belong to [[fantastic art]] rather than having a significant connection with Surrealism.<ref>"...the tendency to interpret Bosch's imagery in terms of modern Surrealism or Freudian psychology is anachronistic. We forget too often that Bosch never read Freud and that modern psychoanalysis would have been incomprehensible to the medieval mind... Modern psychology may explain the appeal Bosch's pictures have for us, but it cannot explain the meaning they had for Bosch and his contemporaries. Bosch did not intend to evoke the subconscious of the viewer, but to teach him certain moral and spiritual truths, and thus his images generally had a precise and premeditated significance." {{Cite book|title=Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450–1516 : between heaven and hell|last=Bosing, Walter.|date=2000|publisher=Taschen|isbn=3-8228-5856-0|location=London|oclc=45329900}}</ref>