Hector Hyppolite created many paintings that are tied to Vodou for the burgeoning Haitian art market of the 1940s.
Surrealism
In 1938, a group of 37 artists, writers and thinkers in Cairo signed a manifesto titled ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’. This marked the start of the group known as ‘Art and Liberty’, and the birth of a distinctly Egyptian style of Surrealism.
A brief guide to Egyptian Surrealism
Rolanda, a close friend of Frida Kahlo, explores her Mexican identity in the 1930s with surrealism and a volcano
Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
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 ...
The Surrealists saw collage as a means to enact what they considered to be the fundamental poetic activity of the unconscious mind.
Surrealist Techniques: Collage
Photographs were used by the Surrealists to call into question the nature of reality.
Surrealist Photography
Surrealist exhibitions broke down conventional distinctions between art and non-art.
Surrealist Exhibitions
Everything is, in the end, a question of representation (in words or images) in which we choose to believe, or not.
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Surrealism both infantilized and empowered women.
Surrealism and Women
Automatism was a group of techniques used by the Surrealists to facilitate the direct and uncontrolled outpouring of unconscious thought.
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
The Surrealists were interested in the unconscious as a creative source.
Surrealism and Psychoanalysis
The goal of Surrealist writings and art was to “ruin” the logical, practical, and moral reasoning that structures human understanding of reality.
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
Surrealism may be familiar from dorm room posters, but what do you really know about this movement?
The Case for 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.
Man Ray takes a common household object and renders it strange, dysfunctional, and dangerous.
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