The Art of Mia Makila: 13 Important Questions
Viewing the art of Mia Makila is like walking into a labyrinthine psyche masquerading as a shop. You open the door, the bell rings, and you realise...
Sarah Mills 30 October 2020
Surrealism
Dior AW 2020-21: Deconstructing Art References
Maria Grazia Chiuri is famous for creating spectacular collections and phantasmagorical shows. Each show is unique, not just for the beautiful...
Errika Gerakiti 15 September 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Primitivism
Primitivism was a facet of Modern art inspired by the works of untrained artists in non-industrialized societies, namely tribal Africa and Oceania.
Alexandra Kiely 10 June 2020
Agostino Arrivabene – A Modern Alchemist
Agostino Arrivabene (born in 1967) is a visionary yet secluded Italian contemporary artist who continues to produce outstanding surrealist works from...
Caroline Galambosova 28 April 2020
Gradiva: What Did Freud and the Surrealists See in Her?
A woman who walks. That’s what Gradiva (the name of an anonymous woman from an antique bas-relief) means, as given by a fictional character...
Magda Michalska 27 April 2020
Art of the Spanish Civil War: Political Propaganda and the Modernist Avant-Garde
April 1, 1939 marked not only the end of the Spanish Civil War but also the fall of the Second Spanish Republic. The victory of General Francisco...
Kacper Grass 1 April 2019
Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain
In the delightfully quirky Hepworth Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, is a quiet exhibition that packs a whole range of mad surrealism in three...
Wendy Gray 7 August 2018
Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and the Art of Chance
The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities and informing our behaviour; the...
Jon Kelly 4 May 2018
Learn More About Man Ray’s Cadeau
Man Ray’s Cadeau, 1921, editioned replica 1972, known also as a ‘Gift’, is one of the famous icons of the surrealist movement. It consists...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 October 2017
Join Salvador Dali in Alice’s Wonderland
Salvador Dalí was a man of many talents – the most famous of Surrealists, he created not only iconic paintings of 20th century but also Chupa...
Zuzanna Stańska 16 October 2017
Salvador Dali Exhumation Shows The Truth About His Fatherhood And Mustache
Couple of weeks ago we were informing that Salvador Dali’s remains will be exhumed in Spain to collect samples for use in a paternity...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 September 2017
The World As Seen Through de Chirico’s Surrealistic Eyes
Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist born in Greece in 1888. He started his education in Athens and Florence. Later he attended The Academy of...
Pola Otterstein 1 September 2017
