Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí would have turned 112 years old today. The bombastic artist was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, where he also died. After 84 years of traveling ...

In his book, he quotes Breton’s declaration “Surrealism is allied with people of color, because it has always been on their side against every form of white imperialism and banditry.” ...

Indeed, what remained from Dada in surrealism was the spirit of energy and revolution, embodied in André Breton’s tract of 1923, “Drop Everything!” (“Lâchez tout!”). To continue ...

Magritte called Surrealism the ability to “make ordinary objects shriek aloud.” Surrealism used dream-like imagery to expose the uncanny in the everyday, injecting fear into the blinking neon ...

Surrealism’s origins are in the collective trauma of World War I and the global flu epidemic of 1918. Convinced that the rational, masculine world was to blame for such horrors, the group’s ...

Surrealism is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term to describe his play “Les Mamelles de Tiresias” (The Teats of Tiresias), which opened in ...

Walking through the Baltimore Museum of Art’s new surrealism show, one senses the world getting busier, more chaotic and confusing, roiling with dark forces and demonic ambitions. “Monsters ...