What began as an arcane metaphysical experiment among a small group of poets and writers in the 1920s has become ubiquitous throughout world culture. Surrealism isn’t just about melting clocks and ...

With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Some of the world's most famous artwork featuring surrealism is on display at the Denver Art Museum's "Modern Masters" exhibit. "The Modern Masters were not subtle," said curator Dean ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Artist Sylvia Fein, born November 20, 1919, is 100 years old today — and still giving gallery talks and interviews, still tending her own olive trees (she recently pressed 82 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. The Tarot conjured by the Surrealists was no ordinary deck of ...

Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic painting “Ariadne” drills down into the deepest recesses of meaning. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable ...

Imagine knowing Da Vinci, but nothing of Raphael or Michelangelo. Knowing Monet, but nothing of Renoir or Degas. It’s time you came to know Lenor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning and Kahlo’s ...

We all know that there are things we don’t know (the known unknowns), things we do know (the known knowns), things we know but don’t want to know (known unknowns) and finally, things we don’t even ...

Because the witches, warlocks and whirligigs of surrealism fall emphatically into the category damned by numbskulled Nazis as “degenerate” art, most people thought—if they thought about it at all—that ...

The original Lachez Tout by Annie le Brun on the now redacted Revolt Against Plenty web was presented without translation in the original French. It was such an interesting text we felt no matter what ...

A famed zoologist returns to his first love, art, in a colorful portrait of the British avant-garde. By Adrian Dannatt When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...