Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still ... published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” decrying the vogue ...

The first is the surrealist movement in the 1920s, when artists took the Freudian idea of the unconscious and plunged right in. The second is the burgeoning of conceptual and performance art from ...

Inspired by Sigmund Freud, Breton set out to unleash the power of the subconscious and provide inspiration to liberate mankind through art. In doing so he kick-started the Surrealist movement.

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 ...

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.

An installation view of “A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now” at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. One of the more current examples of surrealism at the Hyde: Wangechi Mutu" "Girl Specimen ...

Women are often the subjects of surrealist art: dismembered, deliquescent, with doors in their stomachs, breasts for eyes and so forth. More elusive, however, are women as proponents of surrealist art ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Andre Breton’s Surrealists styled themselves as professional troublemakers, sworn enemies of social and cultural convention, but ...