It must be said, as someone who has read up on Surrealism in many a book, that Surrealism is not the same as weird. That term is interconnection to Surrealism but the movement was as much about effects on the mind that weren't "weird" but disrupted complacency and the rational. Think of it this way, whether this works as a good analogue or a terrible one, smearing your nude body with raspberry jam, wearing a frozen chicken on your head and running through a supermarket stark bollock naked quoting Marxism isn't Surrealism. It could only if it wasn't merely to cause a mere strange reaction in others, but playing with the irrational and taboo on a deeper level in a very silly way. Arguing with someone what type of fruit jam to use to complete this task is closer to Surrealism because, even when completely nonsensical, the paintings and other works of art in this movement had their own internal set of rules and depth. Surrealism was as much about the absurd, the arbitrary, the contradictory, the dreamlike etc. in context of them being fleshed out and being made real, the melting clocks in perspective of Salvador Dali's own subconscious, and the shoes made out of bread to actually be worn like regular shoes to go to work in.
