Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under ...

The talk of Art Basel Paris’s third edition has no doubt been the Grand Palais, the architectural gem custom-built 124 years ago for the Universal Exposition of 1900.

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...

One hundred years ago this October, André Breton wrote his first Surrealist ... one may start to see its spirit everywhere, from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and the aquariums of Pierre ...

“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass,” André Breton wrote in 1924. “Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement ...

And what about Andre Breton? He was one of the first to devote himself to "ecriture automatique," or automatic writing, a method of intuitive writing or making art, with which one puts images ...

In October, 1924, André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, demanding a break from the conformities of the past and arguing for an art that pulled liberally from Freud ...

The artist spent time traveling throughout Europe as a young man, meeting the Surrealist poets Octavio Paz and André Breton. He died on October 9, 2017 in Lima, Peru. Today, De Szyszlo’s works are ...

the “Surrealism” exhibition celebrates the centenary of a movement born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s Manifeste du surréalisme. The central role of printmaking in five centuries of ...

and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She was contemporaries with Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Robin Bartlett, Joseph Bard, Paul Nash, André Breton, Paul ...

Artist-turned-director Titus Kaphar’s new movie stars Holland as Tarrell, a painter and family man forced to reckon with his past. “It was easy for me to relate to the discipline, I think ...

This Le Havre art museum, located in a bright 1960s glass-and-metal building, boasts enormous plate glass windows that perfectly allow in the famous light that has fascinated artists for decades.