An exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum marks 100 years of surrealism, showcasing captivating paintings, sculptures and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor looks at 'Magnetic Mountain' by Kurt Seligmann at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty ...

Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his nonchalance has brought his way. -- André Breton, ...

Today, Surrealism is thought of as being synonymous with artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, or Man Ray. Over the years, names of women artists like Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and ...

Detail of Max Ernst, "Au rendez-vous des amis" (1922), featuring, left to right: Louis Aragon, André Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, and Gala Dalí (then Éluard), at ...

From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed into a violin (“Le Violin D’Ingres” by Man Ray) surrealist art still has ...

The Musée du Luxembourg chronicles British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington's remarkable, eight-decade career.

With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism (including 232 color plates and 777 halftones) from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the ...

From the April, 1977 issue of High Times comes Rex Weiner’s interesting take on a 20th-century avant-garde movement. Dada was a defiant No to every thing but Me. If history may be seen as a metronome ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction ...

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 ...