It began when a carpenter working on the property told Gissler about a “womanizing surrealist ... a student of art history ...

The poet André Breton became fascinated by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and deployed them to champion a movement in art and ideas.

Book Review: Art, Magic, and the Surrealist Mind André Breton's "Magic Art" explores the intersection of art and magic but lacks depth, meandering through surrealist ideas, esoterica, and historical ...

While surrealism had a reputation for misogyny — Breton and the group’s early male hierarchy thought of women within the movement as simply “muses” — women were making and exhibiting art ...

The Persistence of Memory(La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism's most famous ...

Breton's theories and writings heavily influenced the works of numerous poets and artists, forging a path for the global Surrealist movement.

An exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth explores New World manifestations of surrealism. Organized by the Modern’s María Elena Ortiz, “Surrealism ...

Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal.