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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Print, Cube, Kateryna Ocheredko

Kateryna Ocheredko

Print . 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print . 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch

€633

Print, Abierta 10, Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Print . 75 x 104 cm Print . 29.5 x 40.9 inch

€2,200

Print, Last supper, Nele Zirnite

Nele Zirnite

Print . 7.5 x 13 x 0.1 cm Print . 3 x 5.1 x 0 inch

€115

Print, Va-Riante, Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta

Print . 67.3 x 52.1 cm Print . 26.5 x 20.5 inch

€2,260

Print, Doubles, Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Print . 68 x 47.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 26.8 x 18.7 x 0 inch

€2,700

Print, Abierta 9, Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Print . 75 x 104 cm Print . 29.5 x 40.9 inch

€1,800

Print, Abierta 5, Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Print . 75 x 104 cm Print . 29.5 x 40.9 inch

€1,800

Painting, Siddhartha, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€700

Print, Never Nest, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 17.8 x 14 x 5.1 cm Print . 7 x 5.5 x 2 inch

€633

Painting, Homme, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting . 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch

€220

Print, Basilisk, Fifo Stricker

Fifo Stricker

Print . 44 x 34.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 17.3 x 13.6 x 0 inch

€500

Print, Night of June, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 15.2 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm Print . 6 x 8 x 2 inch

€791

Painting, Fragment # 14, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 24 x 16 x 0.1 cm Painting . 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch

€180

Painting, Fragment # 12, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 24 x 16 x 0.1 cm Painting . 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch

€180

Painting, Fragment # 9, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 24 x 16 x 0.1 cm Painting . 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch

€180

Print, Black or White, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 16.5 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print . 6.5 x 4 x 2 inch

€678

Print, Jumping Book, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 16.5 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print . 6.5 x 4.5 x 2 inch

€701

Print, The Red Glove, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 22.9 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print . 9 x 4.5 x 2 inch

€678

Print, Vespers, Leo Guida

Leo Guida

Print . 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

€300

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