So what would Dali have made of “surreal soirées”? He certainly was known to have attended a few, not least the infamous Surrealist Ball thrown by the Rothschilds in 1972 at Ferrières ...

Breton’s surrealism, on the other hand, is both idealistic and ideological. It prescribes certain artistic practices—automatism—for certain aesthetic and social ends. The word “surrealism ...

"The Surrealist Manifesto" was published a century ago. Artists like Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better ...

In this web extra, Kim Macuare, program director at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., talks with correspondent Conor ...

In Paris, when he was 24, he met Picasso and Miró, and the leader of Surrealism, André Breton. Breton found Dali’s paranoiac-critical method to be the perfect instrument of application for ...

Staff Reporter Rhea Nayyar chatting with Salvador Dalí via the Surrealist artist’s “Lobster ... into murkier waters by asking why André Breton had kicked him out of the Surrealists group ...

Surrealism started in Paris, France in the 1920s. Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known Surrealist painters. Other surrealist artists include Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and ...

André Breton’s visit to the Hopi Mesas in August 1945, the month the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, turned into a crossroads for him and for surrealism. This talk examines ...

focuses on remodelled self-portraits of André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Suzanne Muzard, Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Yves Tanguy, Jacques-André Boiffard and Marie-Berthe Aurenche. The exhibition is running ...

Creatives of his time, like Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and André Breton, were finding new ways to express themselves and their ideas and their artistic styles heavily influenced a young Dalí. The ...