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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Photography, Memorial, Rodrigo Etem

Rodrigo Etem

Photography . 61 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography . 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch

€1,369

Fine Art Drawings, Wayfarers, Yana Dmitrieva

Yana Dmitrieva

Fine Art Drawings . 68 x 47.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 26.8 x 18.7 x 0 inch

€575

Photography, The Leaning One, Paolo Salmaso

Paolo Salmaso

Photography . 150 x 100 x 0.4 cm Photography . 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch

€1,800

Print, Canopia, Christophe Malsert

Christophe Malsert

Print . 90 x 90 x 3 cm Print . 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch

€429

Photography, The Fears, Gloria Matarazzo

Gloria Matarazzo

Photography . 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography . 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€740

Painting, Phoenix, Erwann Tirilly

Erwann Tirilly

Painting . 143 x 135 x 2 cm Painting . 56.3 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch

€14,000

Painting, Genesis Eye, Farid Saâdi

Farid Saâdi

Painting . 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€5,800

Painting, Printemps, Artur

Artur

Painting . 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch

€5,400

Painting, Bare Life, Aphisit Sidsunthia

Aphisit Sidsunthia

Painting . 109 x 88 x 1.5 cm Painting . 42.9 x 34.6 x 0.6 inch

€3,615

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, 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

Fine Art Drawings, Burning Love, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Fine Art Drawings . 65 x 46 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 25.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch

€1,800

Painting, Take-2, Andrii Davydenko

Andrii Davydenko

Painting . 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€500

Photography, Untitled TV I, Rodrigo Etem

Rodrigo Etem

Photography . 55.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography . 22 x 40 x 0.1 inch

€1,369

Photography, Untitled chimney, Rodrigo Etem

Rodrigo Etem

Photography . 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Photography . 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch

€1,369

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