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 ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the movement, yet its influence still resonates with artists around the world. Surrealism’s origins are in the collective trauma of World War I and the ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...