Tokyo designer Ryunosuke Okazaki has created a collection of sculptural garments that reference the surrealist art method of automatism. His eponymous Automatism collection showcases a series of eight ...

To bring her surrealist works to life, British artist Ithell Colquhoun employed techniques ranging from fumage to decalcomania, entopic graphomania and parsemage. The first uses smoke from a lighted ...

"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. "Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS ...

André Breton—theorist, poet, novelist, editor, and author of the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto—famously defined surrealism as “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express . . .

An exhibition on Surrealism, co-curated by Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the movement's previously unacknowledged multi-culturalism. These artworks from six continents ...

Art history is a collaborative project, forever being written and revised. The legacies of artists are developed over time by a small army of contributors and shaped by forces beyond the art itself.

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 ...

The art market has a strong Surrealist vibe entering the fall season. It struck me as I rushed around New York last week, from the Armory Show to satellite events and gallery exhibitions. The ...

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