Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst – A Surreal Love Story
They fell in love while playing chess and stayed together for the rest of their lives. Read about the relationship between the famous German...
Magda Michalska 28 September 2023
Surrealism
Max Ernst and Birds: A Relationship Explained Through Paintings
Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a prolific German avant-garde artist. He was a pioneer in the early 20th-century movements of Dada and Surrealism and...
Anastasia Tsaleza 28 September 2023
Surrealism 101: Everything You Need to Know
Surreal. Adj. Strange; not seeming real; like a dream Cambridge dictionary Do you know the origin of this word? It comes from one of the most...
Tommy Thiange 1 September 2023
Masterpiece Story: Sympathy by Remedios Varo
Sympathy is a fascinating painting by Catalan artist Remedios Varo. It presents a lady with a cat in a most unusual and Surrealist situation. You...
Alicja Gluszek 31 August 2023
Erna Rosenstein – Surrealist in the Country Where the Movement Didn’t Exist
Erna Rosenstein was born Jewish. This fact weighed on her whole life because Rosenstein’s family lived in Lviv, Ukraine, and to complicate things...
Magda Michalska 25 August 2023
The Surrealistic World of Dora Maar
The name Dora Maar reminds most people of Pablo Picasso. But apart from being his muse and lover, she was first and foremost an ambitious and...
Michel Rutten 25 August 2023
Leonora Carrington and Her Surrealist Life in Her Own Words
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) is considered one of the greatest but most neglected British Surrealists. Her life story is a fascinating one: she...
Magda Michalska 25 August 2023
Christian Dior and Surrealist Women Artists
Feminism which entered the public debate a few decades ago has influenced many aspects of our culture, including fashion. Many designers have...
Errika Gerakiti 25 August 2023
QUIZ: Can You Guess These Surrealist Artists?
Martyna Topolska 25 August 2023
The Original Guerilla Girls: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Book Review
If I asked for your top 10 political artists, does Claude Cahun spring to mind? Marcel Moore? No, I guessed as much. But these two art activists had...
Candy Bedworth 18 August 2023
Remedios Varo Captures the Intangible at the Art Institute of Chicago
Embroidering the Earth, entrapping the moon in a cage, juggling stars—these are the elements of the fantastic and beguiling world of Remedios Varo.
Natalia Iacobelli 17 August 2023
Masterpiece Story: Madonna of Port Lligat by Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí’s The Madonna of Port Lligat is an image of Mary holding baby Jesus in her lap. Seems simple, but it has layers upon layers of...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 15 August 2023
