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 . . .

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 ...

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 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, ...