This spring, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hosts the first solo museum exhibition in Canada devoted to the life and work of Montreal-born Surrealist Alan Glass (1921-2023).

Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. It's a century since André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism ...

Like Matisse and Picasso, Breton was attracted to primitive art. Frequenting the flea markets in Paris, Mexico and New York, he acquired more than 150 South Pacific and American Indian objects.

Magic Art, by André Breton. Fulgar Press. A foreword by Robert Shehu-Ansell explains Magic Art was first available in 1957, when it was printed as part of a subscription edition of a thematic series ...

Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18. Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.” Jean ...

The French artist Jean Dubuffet along with Andre Breton first defined outsider art as Art Brut (Raw Art) in 1945 and collected examples of work they considered "uncooked" by either classical or ...

Breton—a French poet and the founder of Surrealism—visited the artist during his four-month-long trip to Mexico in 1938 and invited her to exhibit in Paris in 1939, describing her work as “a ...