The Bio-Art Movement Finds (Cultures & Grows) Its Wings in France
NANTES, France- This was the birthplace of science fiction writer Jules Verne. And during World War I, it was here that surrealist king pin André Breton met a wounded soldier in a hospital ward whose conviction that art was nonsense was one of the catalysts for the Surrealism and Dada art movements. Verne was a writer who read scientific journals and incorporated them into his fantastical literary works. Breton and his ilk, called upon the Freudian world of psychoanalysis and dreams for inspiration in their artistic forays. These crude and early hybrids of the arts were conceived here in Nantes. They crossed boundaries and found ways to marry science and art.