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, Orange love, Le Hai Linh

Le Hai Linh

Painting . 52 x 50 x 1 cm Painting . 20.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

€2,450

Painting, Field of healing, Yulia Nova

Yulia Nova

Painting . 50 x 50 x 1.6 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch

€704

Painting, Inaya, Laurent Messager

Laurent Messager

Painting . 65 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€800

Painting, Hot sun, Tetiana Borys

Tetiana Borys

Painting . 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting . 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch

€580

Painting, Repos, Claude André Thibaud

Claude André Thibaud

Painting . 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€1,480

Painting, Genesis, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 100 x 100 x 0.8 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.3 inch

€5,500

Painting, Body Language, Ronnie Jiang

Ronnie Jiang

Painting . 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€3,200

Painting, Mr Culture, Le Hai Linh

Le Hai Linh

Painting . 98 x 130 x 1 cm Painting . 38.6 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch

€5,350

Painting, Celestial, Niki Singleton

Niki Singleton

Painting . 31 x 41 x 2 cm Painting . 12.2 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch

€2,533

Painting, Anchor point, Irina Petrova

Irina Petrova

Painting . 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting . 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch

€541

Painting, Doppleganger, Niki Singleton

Niki Singleton

Painting . 75 x 101 x 3 cm Painting . 29.5 x 39.8 x 1.2 inch

€7,396

Painting, Avalon, Mina Mond

Mina Mond

Painting . 35 x 34 x 0.8 cm Painting . 13.8 x 13.4 x 0.3 inch

€400