Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman: 37 Years of Collaboration
Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman’s 37-year collaboration challenged viewers and revealed connections between the traditionally realistic medium...
Theodore Carter 24 October 2025
Surrealism
Joan Miró and the United States: Dialogues That Shaped Modern Art
At Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, a new exhibition sheds light on an often-overlooked chapter of modern art: the transatlantic dialogue between...
Celia Leiva Otto 23 October 2025
Rebel, Rebel: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
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 17 October 2025
The Art of Photography: Lee Miller at Tate Britain
A new exhibition at Tate Britain in London explores the work of 20th-century photographer Lee Miller. From her early years as a fashion model and...
Edoardo Cesarino 13 October 2025
Masterpiece Story: Eagle by Alexander Calder
American sculptor, Alexander Calder, most famous for his kinetic moving, suspended mobile sculptures, also created a number of massive stationary...
Nadine Waldmann 14 September 2025
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 2025
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 18 August 2025
Queen of Chicago: American Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie
Gertrude Abercrombie’s barren landscapes, cats, female figures in long dresses, and other repeated imagery built a complex body of haunting...
Theodore Carter 5 June 2025
Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic: Pushing the Limits of Surrealism
Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic was the first female Croatian Surrealist painter and one of the greatest artists of Croatian contemporary art. As a painter,...
Guest Author 26 May 2025
Marion Adnams: A Teacher Who Turned Into a Surrealist
Would you ever suspect one of your teachers to be a painter? Marion Adnams, a modern languages teacher from Derby, England, turned out to be a hidden...
Magda Michalska 26 May 2025
Immerse Yourself in the Magical World of Maria Anto
Maria Anto (Maria Czarnecka) was a late 20th-century Polish painter. She created a series of paintings in the magical realism genre, depicting...
Pola Otterstein 26 May 2025
Pablo Picasso in 8 Periods: Everything You Need to Know
Pablo Picasso, a prolific producer of paintings, prints, ceramics, and sculpture, his work has perhaps become over-familiar. Equally, in recent years...
Catriona Miller 23 May 2025
