Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. It's a ...

“Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined 20th-century cultural history. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary this ...

This painting is arguably the most emblematic Surrealist artwork ever, as well as one of the best-known paintings in art history. By Dalí’s own account, the “Persistence of Memory” was inspired by ...

A painting by the 'Master of Surrealism' Rene Magritte has smashed the auction record for any of his works by selling for an ...