Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo was gravely injured in a bus accident in 1925. She began to paint during her long and difficult convalescence, and the painful consequences of the accident impregnated her paintings with frequent references to suffering and death.

Diego Rivera, to whom she would show her canvases, encouraged her to continue [Read more]

Catalan painter and sculptor, Joan Miró, frequently stayed in Paris beginning in the 20's. There, he discovered the Dada movement. He next rallied to Surrealism, which transformed the very way he painted.

He created, moreover, a sensation in 1925 by exhibiting his works associated with the movement. Several years later, he began to [Read more]

Emmanuel Rudnitsky, better known as Man Ray, painter, photographer, and American filmmaker, settled down in Paris in 1921 after unsuccessfully trying establish the Dada movement in New York with his friend Marcel Duchamp.

He wasn't long in joining the Surrealists and photographed the greatest artists of his day. He invented Rayographie [Read more]

Having first distinguished himself in the Dada movement in Cologne, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst joined the Parisian Surrealists in 1922.

He did not hesitate to experiment new techniques: collage, rubbing, and scratching to create abstract patterns incorporated into his painting. He began to work in sculpture during the [Read more]

The discovery, in the mid-20's, of a work by De Chirico (Love Song, 1914) overwhelmed Belgian painter René Magritte, a former student at the Beaux-Arts of Brussels who already had been interested in Cubism and Futurism. His painting was meant to be academic, but the way he represented reality was truly astonishing.

Humor and [Read more]

Perhaps the most famous of all Surrealists, Salvador Dalí was born in Catalonia (Spain) whose landscapes were to mark his work. Friend of poet Federico García Lorca and filmmaker Luis Buñuel, he collaborated with the latter on the creation of the films An Andalusian Dog (1928) and The Golden Age (1930).

First [Read more]