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

The victim: Painter Max Ernst, 63, whose dreamscapes haunted with women in birds’ plumage, boilerplate elephants and the carnage of dismembered mannequins long kept him in the surrealist van.

German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a key figure whose work had a profound influence on the trajectory of modern art from the early to late 20th century.

Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.

At Art Basel, Surrealist painter Leonor Fini is just beginning to get her due Although not as well known as contemporaries like Dalí and Ernst, Fini was part of every major Surrealist exhibition ...

Art World Eureka: The Technique Max Ernst Invented to Harness His Inner Eye Ernst began with collage in the 1910s before moving onto frottage and grattage.

As the high priest of surrealism (the successor of Dada), delicate little, white-haired Max Ernst was still going strong but his new show in a Manhattan gallery last week lacked something—the ...

Other surrealist artists include Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Surrealists believed that human beings should be free from the usual thoughts and rules of life.

Fini, who was born in Argentina before moving as a child to Italy, outlived most of her contemporaries, Surrealist artists like Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and Rene Magritte.