While it is true that Surrealism is fantasy in that it is usually fantastical and or dreamlike in it's qualities, it is not the type of Fantasy most associate with the Fantasy Genre.  Most think of the Fanatsy Genre as containing elements of the High Fantasy or Fantasy literature and games with things like castles, dragons, wizards, magic, monsters, warriors and such.  While the word Fantasy can be applied much more boradly, when assigning as a genre for visual media it is important to consider how the greater public will associate and think of it.  The meanings of Surrealism, Abstract, Impressionist (why don't we have an impressionist genre? Can it even be represented in 3d) can be discussed and argued from several angles I feel that doing so runs the risk of art snobbery.  Even more importantly, these genres have multiple sub categories as well... and it is certainly possible to have an image that crosses genres. 

I have done a lot of Surreal art in my time, both traditional and digital.  I am also a fan of Surreal Art (especially the works of Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, and H.R. Geiger).  I definately strongly feel it should remain a seperate and distict category and have better curation in terms of what media is added to ti.  I do like the idea presented by Torquinox to add text tags explaining the genre galleries to users, though as was said you can not force people to read them.  Still, I am all in favor of trying to lift people up and educating them rather than watering down the galleries to make them "easier" to understand.  

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