Is this someone you know? Only in your mind. Does any of this look familiar to you? Have you been here? If you have, consider yourself *** surrealist. At the Joscelyn, an exhibition of surrealism ...

"Long Live Surrealism!" at the Blanton Museum of Art is a far-ranging exhibition covering one of the most beloved—and approachable—art movements of modern times. “Long Live Surrealism! 1924-Today” is ...

The old proverb states that: "There is nothing new under the sun." This can feel very true when surveying the landscape of our paint-by-numbers creativity. One thing that stifles new ideas is the fear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline ...

"The Surrealist Manifesto" was published a century ago. Artists such as Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better future. How has their legacy changed the way we see the world? A desert ...

If asked to identify an abstract painting, most people will readily point to one of Picasso”s works or Salvador Dali”s “Persistence of Time.” Although cubism and surrealism are the unmistakable norm ...

Andre Breton’s Surrealists styled themselves as professional troublemakers, sworn enemies of social and cultural convention, but in their attitudes towards women, the men were remarkably old-fashioned ...

What to know about one of the field’s most misappropriated terms. By Julia Halperin Matthew Affron, 63, the curator of modern art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the organizer of its recent ...

Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic-sometimes-repulsive (regularly both) subject matter was celebrated with ...

The Joslyn Art Museum featured a surrealist art exhibit in 1986, drawing crowds questioning what the pieces meant. The surrealist movement started during World War I when the horror that was war ...