As Surrealism celebrates its 100th birthday, a rare sculpture by renowned Surrealist Leonora Carrington is going up for auction. On November 18, Sotheby’s will sell La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman ...
In the aftermath, new forms of expression came into being. Enter Surrealist art, with its emphasis on positive expression. The proponents of Surrealism saw the art form as a rejection of ...
Coinciding with the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, ‘The Traumatic Surreal’ also critiques the sexist leanings of surrealist art: eroticising women and infantilising them, too. In 1924, poet ...