But does it make for good art? On that score ... automatism—for certain aesthetic and social ends. The word “surrealism” was first used in 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire in reference to ...
Beat poetry’s Surrealist aesthetic ... blanketing the sidewalks in word art more than a decade before graffiti took hold in New York. Like all of the work in the Zürcher show, the Bird Lives!
Mark Ryden’s oil painting Abraham Lincoln, Barbie Roberts, and Bee is one of the show’s biggest attractions and smallest ...
Surrealism is a style of art inspired by dreams and hidden thoughts. Surrealism started in Paris, France in the 1920s. Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known Surrealist painters. Other ...
Kelly Grovier explores the unexpected origins of seven terms coined in art history, including the political meaning of ‘silhouette’ – and the roots of the word ‘mob’.
The revelation of the night was Christie’s annual Art of the Surreal session. Inaugurated by specialist Olivier Camu back in 2001, this specialist London sale has over the years become an ...