1. Absurd
Adjective:
--wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate: completely ridiculous
--having no rational or orderly relationship to human life
Noun:
an absurd state of affairs.

2. The Absurd and Social Commentaries

4. Hyperbolic Logical Fallacies
Absurdity as a Device
Hyperbolic Logical Fallacies

6. Absurdism and Non Sequitur

8. Breaking Social Conformity
Anecdotes in which characters take socially unacceptable actions to confront socially accepted emotions.

10. Absurdism
life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason

11. Camus, Kafka, and Absurdism
Camus (possibly the greatest Existential novelists) believed that Kafka was the first to perfectly marry Absurdism to Existential ideals – both in a philosophical sense and a literary sense.

12. Franz Kafka
Albert Camus

13. Surrealism

15. Gala Éluard, 1924 Max Ernst (French, born Germany, 1891–1976) Oil on canvas 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006 ( ) © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

17. Photo: This Is the Color of My Dreams, Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) Oil on canvas; 38 x 51 in. (96.5 x cm) The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 ( ) © 2011 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

19. Margritte, Rene. The Treachery of Images. Oil painting. 1928-1929.
Los Angels’ County Museum of Art

21. Dali, Salvador. The Persistence of Memory. Oil painting. 1931.