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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Painting, Bestia-I, Stanislav Bojankov

Stanislav Bojankov

Painting . 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch

€750

Painting, Couple II, Angu Walters

Angu Walters

Painting . 34 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting . 13.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch

€451

Print, My Soul, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 135 x 135 x 0.3 cm Print . 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch

€605

Print, Untitled, Joan Ponç

Joan Ponç

Print . 69.1 x 48 x 0 cm Print . 27.2 x 18.9 x 0.01 inch

€677

Painting, Silhouette prime, Ayoka Zahir

Ayoka Zahir

Painting . 42 x 29.7 x 0.01 cm Painting . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch

€100

Print, Midnight Sun, Ian Jones

Ian Jones

Print . 80 x 60 x 0.5 cm Print . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch

€850

Painting, Untitled, Alisa Gorelova

Alisa Gorelova

Painting . 50 x 20 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch

€910

Painting, Room, 59, Daniel Bialowas

Daniel Bialowas

Painting . 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch

€2,995

Fine Art Drawings, Portrait of her, Victor Popov

Victor Popov

Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

€490

Painting, Modern Earthscape, Tori Grin

Tori Grin

Painting . 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting . 36 x 36 x 2 inch

€1,354

Painting, Untitled, Alisa Gorelova

Alisa Gorelova

Painting . 162 x 97 x 3 cm Painting . 63.8 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch

€4,500

Painting, Dark watter, Elena Zima

Elena Zima

Painting . 60 x 90 x 4 cm Painting . 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch

€1,896

Painting, The Bath, Olena Shtepura

Olena Shtepura

Painting . 115 x 105 x 2.5 cm Painting . 45.3 x 41.3 x 1 inch

€3,000

Painting, Freed spirit, Le Hai Linh

Le Hai Linh

Painting . 80 x 55 x 1 cm Painting . 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch

€1,050

Painting, Uomec, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting . 130 x 92 x 1 cm Painting . 51.2 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch

€5,000 €4,500

Painting, Fantasy, Daniil Litvinov

Daniil Litvinov

Painting . 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting . 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch

€220

Painting, Untitled, Oksana Domnytska

Oksana Domnytska

Painting . 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€542

Painting, Giant, Ayoka Zahir

Ayoka Zahir

Painting . 42 x 29.5 x 0.01 cm Painting . 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch

€300

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