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Mark Robert Rank, Professor of Social Welfare, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

YOU WONT BELIEVE: How the surrealists used randomness as a catalyst for creative expression - What They Never Told You

Instead of drawing a bath, surrealist Salvador Dalí decides to draw in a bath. Bettmann/Getty Images

A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” which launched an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.

These juxtapositions, often generated through chance, were thought to stimulate the unconscious mind to cultivate new insights.

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