Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in …

Nov 27, 2025 · Surrealism, movement in European visual art and literature between the World Wars that was a reaction against cultural and political rationalism. Surrealism grew out of the …

Surrealism shared much of the anti-rationalism of Dada, the movement out of which it grew. The original Parisian Surrealists used art as a reprieve from violent political situations and to …

Nov 14, 2025 · Surrealism is an art movement that sought to unlock the hidden depths of the human mind. Emerging in the early 1920s, it rejected rational thought and embraced the …

Surrealism took shape in 1920s Paris championed by writer André Breton. It built on Dada, a World War I–era movement that rejected individual expression in favor of chance and absurdity.

May 10, 2021 · Surrealism became a formal art movement, with a strong political, philosophical and social undercurrent that defined the methods used to elicit shock and curiosity among its …

Nov 3, 2025 · Surrealism unleashed the creative possibilities of art, blurring the boundaries between genres, subjects, media and geographies. Here, discover some of its most salient …

An artistic and literary movement led by French poet and writer André Breton from 1924 through World War II. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists …

Oct 1, 2004 · Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early ’20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which …

Learn more with this tour of our internationally renowned collection of Surrealist art. Please note: artworks occasionally go off view for imaging, treatment, or loan to other institutions. Click on …