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

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

An overlooked female artist is starting to get her due. Nearly 30 years after her death, Leonor Fini's captivating, often gender-bending images are attracting renewed attention. She is one of the ...

British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun was a pioneer of Surrealist “automatism,” creating images from charcoal shavings ...

Salvador Dalí conceived of a movie that would star the Marx Brothers against a bizarre, romantic dreamscape filled with ...

"No male surrealist artist engaged as directly in representing and critiquing the Second World War as these women artists did," she tells the BBC. Claude Cahun and her girlfriend Marcel Moore were ...

Female Surrealists are having a moment in the sun. Not that Leonor Fini wanted to be considered a Surrealist, or a female artist for that matter. “She would say: ‘I am a painter, that’s ...

Different artists from different backgrounds can use Surrealism to explore their individual ... the group’s early male hierarchy thought of women within the movement as simply “muses ...

“Breton always emphasized the Surrealism breaks boundaries, but it often excluded women,” Allmer said. “Women artists took the truth of Surrealism to make feminist political statements and ...