Surrealism may be familiar from dorm room posters, but what do you really know about this movement?
Surrealism
Identifying as agents of change, the Surrealists were interested in Freudian psychology and social revolution.
Surrealism, an introduction
Dalí wages war on the rational in this naturalistic landscape populated by strange objects.
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
Dalí’s forms are mirrored and doubled in this disconcerting painting, made in a state of “paranoiac critical activity.”
Salvador Dalí, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
This painting claims it is not a pipe… so what is it?
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci ...
The architectural forms of a dream are constructed as a stage set, ready to be taken apart and reconfigured.
Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
This furry tea service was a touchstone for Surrealism, but the artist was a victim of her own success.
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and ...
Man Ray takes a common household object and renders it strange, dysfunctional, and dangerous.