By the 1930s, modern art or new art had been assimilated as something normal and, as had happened with the 1900 styles, its commonplace forms impregnated the whole of society through what became known as Art Deco or ‘contemporary lyricism’. The different shades of Surrealism rebelled against this situation and demanded a return to a supposedly more genuine art whose motives lay not in the logic of ‘modern life’ but in the primitive, the subconscious and dreams.