Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Dalí and Giacometti each sought to locate the self beyond the self, to sculpt and paint not what was seen, but what was felt and ...

(CNN) — From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed into a violin (“Le Violin D’Ingres” by Man Ray) surrealist art ...

Tucked away in the lower level of the Art Institute and secluded from the museum’s general bustle is Surrealism under Pressure, a retrospective of the work of Czech Surrealist artist Jindřich Heisler, ...

At the Philadelphia Art Museum's latest exhibit, objects and figures are just slightly off. The bodies in paintings are fractured, missing parts or sprouting beaks. Spikes burst out of a clothing iron ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Concluding on September 18, Sotheby’s sale of Pauline Karpidas’ art and design collection fetched a combined £101 million ($137 million), and became the highest-earning sale by a single ...

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

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This winter, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, is hosting an exhibition that art lovers are unlikely to see repeated anytime soon—or possibly ever again in the United States. On view now ...