Surrealism at 100’ and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Man Ray: When Objects Dream’—highlight the movement’s weird, witty ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Surrealism as a formal art movement is barely a century old. From its roots in 1920s Paris, it has always been bold, modern ...

Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

The art market has a strong Surrealist vibe entering the fall season. It struck me as I rushed around New York last week, from the Armory Show to satellite events and gallery exhibitions. The ...

The primary goal of the surrealist movement was to liberate the modern mind by demonstrating how deep psychological impulses could be explored, depicted, and fused with everyday reality. The primary ...

With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. This article is more than 3 years old. Le Violon d'Ingres by Man ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

Long before face filters and dancing hot dogs could alter the way we see the world and ourselves, there was already a group of people experimenting with the notion of the "real": surrealist artists.

Contemporary art wouldn’t be the same without Surrealism. In 1924, when French writer, poet, and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto, no one likely thought about the impact it would ...