My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

In the living room of her Hyde Park apartment, University of Chicago graduate student Yuqing Zhu holds up Precession, her latest artwork, next to a print by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. Both ...

These pictures provide a peek into the imagination of Argentine artist Martin De Pasquale. He translates his dreams into surreal, photo-manipulated artworks. Using a combination of Photoshop CS5, 3Ds ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Claude Cahun, the French surrealist photographer and writers whose works challenged norms around gender and sexuality in the early 20th century. Born on this day in ...

The art movement originated in France in 1924 and quickly began influencing all forms of media across the globe.

Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the 1920s and sought to unleash the unconscious mind. Women artists within the movement often drew on its dreamlike ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...