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[[image:massurreal2.jpg|right|thumb|225px|'''ABOVE:''' "Untitled" By James Seehafer. Remake of original shopping cart concept from 1990. Image use courtesy of massurrealism.org]]
The term '''massurrealism''' was coined by artist [[James Seehafer]] in [[1992]] and is sometimes referred to as a [[post-modernist]] movement but is more properly identified as an artistic tendency. Massurrealism is based in a further evolution of [[surrealism]] with technology and mass media as the catalyst, but this position has been criticized by surrealists, some of whom have stated in rejoinder that surrealism is not an artistic movement. Interest in massurrealism among [[new media]] [[artist]]s has been growing steadily. Starting as a grassroots art style, it began to generate interest first in the New York Area, before spreading to Los Angeles and beyond [[United States|U.S.]] borders to [[Mexico]], [[Russia]] and [[Europe]]. Massurrealism also is influenced by mass–media communications, where examples of surrealist–influenced imagery are present: print media, movies and music videos. The ideology behind Massurrealism is more oriented towards the writings and theories of [[Cecil Touchon]], [[Domenic Ali]], [[Marshall McLuhan]], and [[Jean Baudrillard]] than on [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] or [[Andre Breton|Breton]]. [[James Seehafer]], [[F. Michael Morris]], [[Alan King (artist)|Alan King]], [[Ginnie Gardiner]], [[Domenic Ali]], [[Caplyn Dor]], [[Alex Filipchenko]], and [[Cecil Touchon]] are representative massurrealist artists.
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