Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed ...

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 ...

What is surrealism? It started as a 20th century art movement that mixed elements of the irrational and imaginative subconscious mind, sprinkled with pops of the real. In art history, we know the ...

A large-scale exhibition of surrealism that first opened in Paris in 2024 will have its sole American iteration, “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100,” at the Philadelphia Art Museum from Nov. 8, 2025, ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition “Sixties Surreal” looks, on paper, like a winner. It surveys a dynamic decade of art, during a tumultuous political era that birthed many of our ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait (Painting: Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 × 32 in. (65 × 81.3 cm)) Metropolitan Museum of Art Carrington spent much of her life in the presence of powerful men–whether her ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...