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 ...

Surrealist art is full of dreamlike images – but not all those dreams were sweet, as evidenced by a traveling exhibit called "Monsters and Myths," currently at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, after ...

“Some of the paintings kind of say that—‘it’s not life at all’—with things that are dead,” Ryden answers. “Not one person has done a straight still life, like painting a bowl of fruit as realistically ...

If you could change the world, what would you do? How would you do it? What does it take to make the world a better place? Meet Angela Latchkey, an American contemporary surreal artist based in the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore personal branding and storytelling in the digital age. Ted Chin is a digital surrealist and photographer originally from ...

(CNN) — From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed into a violin (“Le Violin D’Ingres” by Man Ray) surrealist art ...

As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward spirituality, mysticism and alternative knowledge ...

Surrealism is having a moment. As the art movement celebrates its centennial, a retrospective is underway in Shanghai, and another is planned for the Center Pompidou in Paris this fall. Believe it or ...

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

Goopy eyeballs, skateboard burgers and raisin hell. What do all these things have in common? They’re weird and you probably have no idea what they mean — but that’s the point. An ongoing art gallery ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. This article is more than 3 years old. Le Violon d'Ingres by Man ...