What's the different between 'Irrealism' and 'Surrealism' ??

Question

What's the different between 'Irrealism' and 'Surrealism' ??

They are about non-realistic objects, right?

Answer 1

No, they are not both about non-realistic objects.

Here, read this about irrealism:

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Irrealism_%28the_arts%29

and this about surrealism:

http://www.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Surrealism

To me the distinction is clear. Freudian thinking, particularly regarding the meaning and motivation of dreams is at the heart of surrealism.

Irrealism propounds the idea that no writer can actually present reality in prose, and further that literature need not have a resolution, a neatly ties up ending, since in reality no such entity can be said to exist.

Both words get widely misused though.