Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under ...
A 1954 painting by René Magritte, L’empire des lumières, has just sold for $121.2 million. The painting surpassed its $95 ...
His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined 20th ... experiments in literature and visual arts. The strange becomes familiar; the familiar becomes ...
It also said that the 1954 oil-on-canvas painting sold for $121,160,000 - "setting a new world record for the artist and for a Surrealist work of art at any auction". The piece of art - one of the ...
It started as a simple technical experiment in the art of still-life using natural ... the inanimate object seemed to take on ...
The groundbreaking Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte introduced ... may not feel terribly familiar with his art, I imagine many will experience a strange sense of deja vu walking into this ...
Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born ... on but was kind of repressed and became this strange undercurrent." One of the exhibition's ...