Unlike Kahlo, whose face appears on cushions and in baby books, Varo, Carrington and Rahon are little known outside the art ...

A member of Surrealist circles in Paris, artist Bona de Mandiargues created otherworlds inhabited by monstrous, erotic ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art.

Welcome to the fantastical world of Surrealism. Surrealism is one of the more complex footnotes in the canon of art history.

“Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined 20th-century cultural history. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary this ...

Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. It's a ...

But they’re also a new category of surrealism. From a certain perspective — if your interpretation is broad enough — they may even be art. Not good art, by any definition, but they raise ...

Surrealist female artistsremained obscure because they were believed to be only muses to their male counterparts.

In the work of today’s food artists, as with many of their predecessors, sustenance takes on a surreal quality when it is bent to the extremities of the creative will. The actual consumption of such ...

But every kind of art, like every kind of person, has its own unconscious—its own primal memories and guilty ambitions. Because Surrealism has always worn its nightmares on its sleeve ...