Surrealists

But Tasset is a playful prankster of sorts, favoring unexpected contexts that recall Surrealists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, while his focus on prosaic objects and images invoke Dada ringmaster Marcel Duchamp.

Victoria Lautman: Chicago's Big Shoulders Get an Eyeball to Match Victoria Lautman 2010

Years later, a cabal of so-called Surrealists celebrate hysteria as a "supreme means of expression" and make a poster child of Augustine, a Salpêtrière patient whose violent yet seductive spasms beguiled her caretakers.

artforum.com 2008

This is an unprecedented opportunity to see two highly regarded Pop Surrealist/Cartoon Surrealists work juxtaposed with one of their major influences.

Lisa Derrick: Retro Cool Pop Art at the Palms this Weekend: Rare Exhibit of MidCentury Modern and MC-Influenced Fine Art Lisa Derrick 2010

"Surrealists have hit a nerve of our times," Mr. Camu says.

Surrealism's Startling Appeal Margaret Studer 2012

This chapter is inspired by the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Friedeberg, the Surrealists movement, and by conversations with various friends, mentors, and muses.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

After many years of shooting the famous and beautiful in twisted poses which those mania'd maestros would gleefully have embraced, she and her sometime collaborator, writer Serge Bramly, decided to do a project that would tell a story in photographs, while paying homage to the Surrealists and to their beloved City of Light.

Michael Kurcfeld: 'ROSE C'EST PARIS': Photographer Bettina Rheims Channels The Surrealists (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2011

Many Surrealists were undervalued at the start of the 21st century, despite their great influence on subsequent generations of artists, says Olivier Camu, Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art deputy chairman.

Surrealism's Startling Appeal Margaret Studer 2012

Her first husband was a painter who flaunted a black cape, according to Dodge cultivating a "very fin-de-siècle and sad" image; the second was the notoriety-seeking poet-boxer Arthur Cravan, posthumously idolized by the Surrealists.

The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011

Later stars of the art world that were influenced by the European Surrealists include America's Jackson Pollock and American-French grande dame of the global art world Louise Bourgeois.

Surrealism's Startling Appeal Margaret Studer 2012

The character became a touchstone for the Surrealists when they learned that it was created by two Montmartre writers who issued alternate chapters in isolation from each other -- a formalized version of the classic Surrealist game of non sequiturs, Le Cadavre Exquis The Exquisite Corpse.

Michael Kurcfeld: 'ROSE C'EST PARIS': Photographer Bettina Rheims Channels The Surrealists (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2011