While writer Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in 1917, with the publication of writer and poet André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 it heralded a dynamic new movement that took ...

Yvan Goll was born in 1891. In his twenties, he moved to Paris, where he wrote antiwar poetry and absurdist drama, met Picasso and Chagall, and gorged himself on the era’s avant-garde buffet.

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

A century after the Surrealist Manifesto drew attention to the unconscious mind as a subject and source for visual art, "International Surrealism," a new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, ...

A century ago, French writer André Breton published a manifesto that would go on to become one of the most influential artistic texts of the 20th century. Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism launched a ...

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 ...

Translated by Ian Thompson, January 2015. Proofread and Edited by Anna O’Meara & Mehdi el H. From here: https://isinenglish.com/the-bitter-victory-of-surrealism ...

As an art historian and critic who has closely studied 20th-century avant-garde movements, I find it remarkable that a word that originated in the arcane jargon of Paris’ modern art circles a century ...

To accompany the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibit Dreamworld, Surrealism at 100, curator Matthew Affron wrote a smooth historical account of surrealist artists who worked at the heart of the ...