Surrealism, the art movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and animals with mismatched parts, was born in 1924 when the French poet André Breton published a treatise decrying ...

“If we in the twenty-first century are to access Surrealism meaningfully,” he writes, “it will not be by re-creating the old debates or melting still more watches.” ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art.

Given Surrealist art's fantastic forms – from Salvador Dalí's melting pocket watches and lobster telephone to Méret Oppenheim's furry cup and saucer – it's easy to dismiss or trivialise ...

Their tendency toward surrealism, however, is not a reinterpretation of melting clocks or green apples for heads. Instead, it is a subtle, intuitive practice, building upon traditions of a past ...

Straight out of the swinging ’60s, its dripping shape looks more like one of Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist melting clocks than a celebrity timepiece. The Crash also has an origin story ...