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An exhibition at NMWA in Washington, DC, explores modern and contemporary women artists’ use of the uncanny as a feminist ...
Five years of Monet's life in South Florida culminated in her latest poetry collection, Florida Water, which touches on ...
The sale of Pauline Karpidas' collection is expected to fetch $81 million, the highest estimate ever placed on a single ...
The torchbearers for one of Spain's most famous artists, Joan Miro, are promising a year-long fiesta of events honouring the ...
But the Surrealist movement was initially a literary one ... often reducing it to a handful of familiar paintings. Art historians Anna Maria Testaverde and Elena Mazzoleni’s essay, which ...
The Spanish painter's most famous work remains an icon of the surrealism art movement, still one of the most celebrated a century after it got off the ground. The movement got its start in Paris ...
Numerous exhibitions are planned, the most significant of which is Surrealism: The Centenary Exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which explores the movement’s influence on art, literature ...
"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!
Today, Surrealism is thought of as being synonymous with artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, or Man Ray. Over the years, names of women artists like Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo ...
And even after 1969, artists who ascribed to the movement insisted they were making Surrealist work, despite the demise of the founding theoretician that was Breton. Surrealism was always bigger ...
At first, words held more sway over Surrealism than images did, but within a few years artists of all stripes had joined up. The movement’s devotion to the pleasure principle can’t have hurt ...