What do these three terms have in common? During my spring break holiday, I attended a lecture at the Honolulu Museum of Art by Dr. Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American Art (lectures ...

Meret Oppenheim was haunted her entire life by a teacup. Object, also sometimes called “Breakfast in Fur,” instantly became one of the quintessential pieces of surrealist art when Oppenheim created it ...

Joshua Castañeda sits in his studio, a small warehouse intended for blue-collar work located in an industrial park in west Phoenix. He paints over a rounded wooden panel that he built custom for a ...

A hundred years ago, in a world brewing with change, an idea emerged from the literary and artistic movement of the 1920s. The publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 introduced ...

Masks take over: Stars embraced elaborate face coverings, from Katy Perry’s fencing mask to Sarah Paulson’s dollar bill eye patch, turning concealment into a creative statement. Surrealist ...

As the longest-running avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Surrealism’s scope and richness is perhaps unparalleled in its influence of modern art and culture. Largely an aesthetic movement – ...

Some of the best examples of surrealist art are the paintings of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, as well as works in paintings and other media by Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Man Ray. Surrealist art ...

Susan Laxton, Surrealism at Play (image courtesy of Duke University Press) In the introduction, Laxton outlines the Surrealists’ hostility toward the utilitarian aspects of progress. Surrealists saw ...