When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream" at the Museum of Modern Art offers a chance to consider his unique brand of syncretic surrealism ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

The history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for Ren Magritte. “You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris,”Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his ...

From the April, 1977 issue of High Times comes Rex Weiner’s interesting take on a 20th-century avant-garde movement. Dada was a defiant No to every thing but Me. If history may be seen as a metronome ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

Simulation as hysterical muse -- From psychological medicine to surrealism -- surrealism and the Salpêtrière legacy -- Artist-sorcerers : mimicry, magic and hysteria -- A theatre of hysteria : ...

Lee Miller was one of the great photographers of the surrealist movement. While many such photographers embraced heavily manipulated prints and distortions at this time, Miller instead pursued ...

Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait (Painting: Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 × 32 in. (65 × 81.3 cm)) Metropolitan Museum of Art Carrington spent much of her life in the presence of powerful men–whether her ...