At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

The Surrealist movement, which came about in the early 20th century, brought to the limelight a way of artistic expression that challenged reality and got into the subjects and topics of the ...

One of the most fascinating art movements of all time, one that is also referred to as rather weird and unconventional, is the Surrealist era, or the Surrealism movement. Breaking off from the ...

Art history suffers from misconceptions that, once generated, achieve the pervasive power of “urban myths:” fictional accounts that reinforce popular [mis]understandings through endless and uncritical ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...

Paul Nash, “Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917” (1918), Imperial War Museum, London ( ©Tate) Tate Britain’s retrospective of Nash’s career, the artist’s second (the first was at Tate Liverpool ...

Lobster telephones, raining men in gray suits and bowler hats, and the stuff of unconscious dreams, are some imagery that automatically come to mind with Surrealism. But what more is there to ...

ALAMEDA — The upper body of the crouching figure takes female form, with protruding spinal cord, visible rib cage, and womanly curves. The head appears to be a cracked egg with an oddly shaped ...