Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under ...

Hepworth Wakefield’s show lacks the ‘wow’ factor of its current Pompidou Centre equivalent, but it’s a weird journey well ...

My own experience of the Surrealism exhibition at Centre Pompidou was somewhat Surreal, as I was fortunate to be part of a ...

Breton’s surrealism, on the other hand, is both idealistic and ideological. It prescribes certain artistic practices—automatism—for certain aesthetic and social ends. The word “surrealism ...

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 ...

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...

In the centre is the ubiquitous surrealist "egg", a symbol of the ambition for a new reality, driven by the imagination and distinct from the suffering of the past. In Paris, where Breton's ...

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first manifesto of Surrealism, and the creation of the core surrealist group in Paris following an initiative of poet and writer, ...

"The Surrealist Manifesto" was published a century ago. Artists like Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better ...

André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to ...

“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass,” André Breton wrote in 1924. “Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement ...