Salvador Dali Self Portrait
20th Century Surrealist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Etching
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Etching
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching, Lithograph
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Paper
1980s Surrealist More Art
Tapestry
1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
Color, Drypoint, Etching
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Paper, Board, Etching
1960s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
1970s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Color, Archival Pigment
1970s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary Mixed Media
Metal, Steel
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Porcelain
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Porcelain
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Porcelain
1980s Expressionist Mixed Media
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
1980s Expressionist Mixed Media
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
1980s Expressionist Mixed Media
Watercolor, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1930s Modern More Art
Paper, Ink
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Offset, Ink, Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Etching
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Etching
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Paintings
Ink, Mixed Media, Gouache
1980s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Silver Gelatin
1980s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Silver Gelatin
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Cardboard, Paper
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Cardboard, Paper
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary More Prints
Archival Paper
1960s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1980s Surrealist Nude Sculptures
Gold
1980s Surrealist Nude Sculptures
Gold
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Lithograph
Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
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A Close Look at Surrealist Art
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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