Why surrealism

A striking image can enliven a room, create thought-provoking discussion, and brighten up the atmosphere. Decades on, Surrealism still exists as a popular genre across mediums. Artists continue to experiment with Surrealism, creating works that reference automatism, dabble with the unconscious, and play around with imagination.

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Tate Kids Who Are They? Look Closer. Tate Etc. Tate Papers. Selected artists in the collection Left Right. Wifredo Lam — Leonora Carrington — Paul Nash — Dorothea Tanning — Max Ernst — Yves Tanguy — Ramses Younan — Sir Roland Penrose — Lionel Wendt — Leonor Fini — Eileen Agar — Selected artworks in the collection.

On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio. Kikuji Yamashita Deification of a Soldier View by appointment. Ramses Younan Inspiration from the sea Sir Roland Penrose House the Light-house Leonor Fini Little Hermit Sphinx Yves Tanguy was a writer until the works of de Chirico inspired him to teach himself to paint in Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor who met Masson in He was influenced by African and Egyptian art, which he combined with the dreamlike aesthetic to create bizarre, stylized figures.

Romanian painter Victor Brauner was introduced to the movement by Tanguy. Panned by Parisian critics. Brauner was fascinated by the occult. His painting Self-portrait with a Plucked Eye gain notoriety after he lost in his eye in a fight seven years later. Illumined Pleasures, by Salvador Dali.

His paintings border on illusion, employing a realistic draftsmanship that brought him long-lasting worldwide popularity. Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images. Artist Meret Oppenheim holding her famed work, Object, in A significant number of women were involved in Surrealism despite their dismissal by many critics and a tendency by male Surrealists to sideline them. German artist Meret Oppenheim joined the Surrealists through Giacometti in Several women came to the movement through Max Ernst.

Ending up in Mexico in , Carrington brought together occult ideas with personal history in both her literary and visual work, as with her painting Self Portrait The White Horse Inn.

Spanish painter Remedios Varo fled her native country and ended up in Mexico in A close friend of Carrington, she worked as a commercial illustrator in Mexico, which is credited as being the key to her unique style, as well as her tendency to place herself in her paintings.

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was part of the Mexico group of artists. Her paintings share similarities with Surrealist works and Breton proclaimed her a Surrealist, but Kahlo rejected the designation. American painter Kay Sage was inspired by the work of de Chirico to pursue Surrealism while she lived in Paris in Shortly after, she met and was influenced by Tanguy, whom she later married in the United States.

Photogram by Man Ray. After moving to Paris in the s, Ray specialized in Rayographs, his variation on photograms, which are made by exposing photographic paper to light with objects placed on it. Ray was also lauded for his fashion and portrait photography, and pursued experimental filmmaking. He is noted for his use of techniques like double exposure and solarization in service of geometry. German photographer Hans Bellmer is best known for using his handmade, life-sized female dolls as photographic subjects.