A look at Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met and Tate exhibition that reframed Surrealism as a global movement of freedom, resistance, feminism, exile, and anti-colonial imagination.
A recently discovered painting by Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital in 1940, goes on public display for the first time at the Freud Museum London this summer. This post looks at what the work reveals and why Carrington still matters.
Art Beyond Reality and Into the Unconscious Mind Surrealism is an artistic genre that explores the world of dreams, imagination, and the subconscious, reaching beyond rational thought to create fantastical and unexpected scenes. Founded in the early 20th century, Surrealism arose as a response to World War I and Western art’s rigid norms of realism … Read more