Surrealism was a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. The movement represented a reaction a...

Surrealism has no unified style, but, in painting, one can distinguish a range of possibilities falling between two extremes. At one pole, the view...

Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which, before World War I, produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason...

The major Surrealist painters were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan...

Poet Guillaume Apollinaire first used the term “surrealist” in 1917 to describe Jean Cocteau’s ballet Parade, and the word appeared in his own play...

The Surrealist art movement challenged the rationality that was seen to govern early 20th-century French society. It was based on the idea that tru...

Surrealism has affected the art (especially in absurdism) as well as the literary and academic world. The famous works of prominent Surrealist figu...

Being an abstract art that is not confined to a specific style, Surrealist art can take many forms. You may identify it by the use of distorted ima...

During the early 1920s, several well-known artists belonged to the Surrealist Movement. These included Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. One of the...

Automatism is a popularly used technique that allows the artist to express their unconscious, without their art being defined by the rational mind....