Surrealism

Surrealism stands as one of the most influential and enduring movements of twentieth-century art. Emerging in Paris during the 1920s around André Breton and inspired by Sigmund Freud's discoveries on the unconscious, dreams, and automatic writing, it rejected rational logic and bourgeois aesthetic conventions. In doing so, it opened up an unprecedented artistic territory where the strange, the marvelous, and the unsettling coexist in compositions that disrupt ordinary perceptions of reality.

Salvador Dalí and his dreamlike landscapes populated by melting clocks, René Magritte and his juxtapositions of familiar objects in impossible contexts, Max Ernst and his hybrid collages, or Joan Miró and his biomorphic forms floating in undefined colorful spaces, illustrate the diversity of visual languages within a movement united by a shared conviction: that art must draw from the depths of the unconscious to access a reality truer than visible appearances.

This legacy continues to profoundly influence contemporary creation, with many artists extending surrealist ideas through works that explore strangeness, dreams, and unexpected associations in a world where the boundaries between real and virtual, conscious and unconscious, have never seemed more porous.

On Artsper, this selection brings together works that extend this foundational legacy, demonstrating the enduring vitality of a movement whose insights into the unconscious and the imagination continue to inspire contemporary art far beyond its original context.

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Fine Art Drawings, Luna, Nef

Nef

Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 inch

£177

Photography, DeliRiUs, Louis Blanc

Louis Blanc

Photography . 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography . 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch

£1,550

Fine Art Drawings, Nature Reclaims, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Fine Art Drawings . 49 x 72 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.3 x 28.3 x 0.1 inch

£1,683

Painting, Letiziam, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting . 85 x 75 x 1 cm Painting . 33.5 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch

£3,100

Painting, Question, Juris Dimiters

Juris Dimiters

Painting . 61 x 40 cm Painting . 24 x 15.7 inch

£797

Painting, The Surrealist, Seromo Okoro

Seromo Okoro

Painting . 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting . 30 x 30 x 1 inch

£1,460

Painting, Fenne, Karin Vermeer Artist

Karin Vermeer Artist

Painting . 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch

£1,767

Painting, Zap120011, Jan Nomis

Jan Nomis

Painting . 65 x 81 x 3 cm Painting . 25.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch

£1,218

Painting, Equilibrio, Alexander Daniloff

Alexander Daniloff

Painting . 32.5 x 15 x 0.4 cm Painting . 12.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch

£151 £136

Sculpture, Unicorna, Richard Texier

Richard Texier

Sculpture . 32 x 60 x 28 cm Sculpture . 12.6 x 23.6 x 11 inch

£21,964

Painting, Softness, Irina Shumskaya

Irina Shumskaya

Painting . 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch

£1,622

Painting, Monalisa, Sumesh Cs

Sumesh Cs

Painting . 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch

£1,266

Painting, Barcode, Gregos

Gregos

Painting . 51 x 61 x 3 cm Painting . 20.1 x 24 x 1.2 inch

£1,151

Painting, Fear, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.6 cm Painting . 20 x 16 x 0.25 inch

£803