Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 35.75 in W 47 in D 2.75 in
Zwölf Enten am Brünnel by Alexander Koester
By Alexander Koester
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted circa 1900 Canvas: 27 1/2" high x 39" wide (69.85 x 99.06 cm) Framed: 35 3/4" high x 47" wide x 2 3/4" deep (90.81 x 119.38 x 6.99 cm) Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 26 Nov...
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 27 in W 20 in
Israeli Folk Art Bright Colorful Naive Floral Painting, Mod Flowers in Vase
By Menia Litvak
Located in Surfside, FL
Mania Litvak - From Paris to Jerusalem Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem 24 February, 1996 - 19 March, 1996 Group Exhibitions Exposition des Artistes de Jérusalem Grand Palais, P...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 27 in W 20 in
Israeli Folk Art Bright Colorful Naive Floral Painting, Mod Flowers in Vase
By Menia Litvak
Located in Surfside, FL
Mania Litvak - From Paris to Jerusalem Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem 24 February, 1996 - 19 March, 1996 Group Exhibitions Exposition des Artistes de Jérusalem Grand Palais, P...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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H 20.75 in W 17.5 in D 1 in
George Skibine and Marjorie Tallchief in Concerto Baracco
By Jean Target 1
Located in San Francisco, CA
She was the first American Indian to become premiere danseuse etoile in the Paris Opera, Marjorie Louise Tallchief was born in Denver, Colorado, to Alexander and Ruth Porter Tall Chi...
Watercolor
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H 55 in W 62 in
"A Dancer's Fantasy" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
She worked for the WPA early in her career, becoming the youngest instructor in the Federal Arts Project along with fellow artist Ruth Gikow. She studied under Alexander Calder, Loui...
Masonite, Egg Tempera
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H 20 in W 14 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
", Museum of Modern Art, New York; (This MoMA show included Ruth Asawa, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Dimitri Hadzi, Richard Hunt and Seymour Lipton) 1960: "Litu...
Etching, Aquatint
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.
Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.
Explore a vast range of abstract prints on 1stDibs to find a piece to enhance your existing collection or transform a space.
Unlike figurative paintings and other figurative art, which focuses on realism and representational perspectives, abstract art concentrates on visual interpretation. An artist may use a single color or simple geometric forms to create a world of depth. Printmaking has a rich history of abstraction. Through materials like stone, metal, wood and wax, an image can be transferred from one surface to another.
During the 19th century, iconic artists, including Edvard Munch, Paul Cézanne, Georgiana Houghton and others, began exploring works based on shapes and colors. This was a departure from the academic conventions of European painting and would influence the rise of 20th-century abstraction and its pioneers, like Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
Some leaders of European abstraction, including Franz Kline, were influenced by the gestural shapes of East Asian calligraphy. Calligraphy interprets poetry, songs, symbols or other means of storytelling into art, from works on paper in Japan to elements of Islamic architecture.
Bold, daring and expressive, abstract art is constantly evolving and dazzling viewers. And entire genres have blossomed from it, such as Color Field painting and Minimalism.
The collection of abstract art prints on 1stDibs includes etchings, lithographs, screen-prints and other works, and you can find prints by artists such as Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and more.