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Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
Max Ernst created the painting named Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale in 1924 when Surrealism began. The work of art was the last piece of his collage masterpieces. It was a farewell to the genre. The painting symbolizes two critical moments in Ernst's life, which marked his existence. -
Painting. "The Tilled Field"
The Tilled Field is a 1923–1924 oil-on-canvas painting by Catalan painter Joan Miró, depicting a stylised view of his family's farm at Mont-roig del Camp in Catalonia. It fits the category of painting as the image was created using paint. I've chosen this artwork specifically because of its unique stylization. The abstract images allow for personal interpretation. It asks the viewer what they are looking at rather than telling them. -
The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)
The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) is an Oil on Canvas Painting created by Joan Miró from 1923 to 1924. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Abstract Art and Abstract Figures. -
Le Violon d'Ingres
Le Violon d'Ingres is a black and white photograph created by American visual artist Man Ray in 1924. It became one of his most known photographs and of surrealist photography. The picture was first published at the Surrealist magazine Littérature, in June 1924. -
The Harlequin's Carnival
The Harlequin's Carnival is an oil painting rendered by Joan Miró between 1924 and 1925. It is one of the most outstanding surrealist paintings of the artist, and it is preserved in the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Created between 1924 and 1925, Harlequin’s Carnival is one of Joan Miró's best-known pieces. -
The Lovers
The Lovers II (1928), is an oil on canvas depicting two individuals locked in an embrace. The figures are kissing one another through veils. They are situated in a room with the back wall, side wall and ceiling showing. -
The Treachery of Images
The Treachery of Images is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe and The Wind and the Song. Magritte painted it when he was 30 years old. It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The painting shows an image of a pipe. -
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. -
Henry Ford Hospital
Henry Ford Hospital is the first painting for which Frida used a metal sheet as a support, in the tradition of Mexican ex-votos, or votive tablets. Title: Henry Ford Hospital. Creator: Frida Kahlo. Date Created: 1932. Provenance: Dolores Olmedo bought it in 1955 to Eduardo Morillo Safa's wife, after he died. -
The Two Fridas
The Two Fridas is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The painting was the first large-scale work done by Kahlo and is considered one of her most notable paintings. It is a double self-portrait, depicting two versions of Kahlo seated together. -
Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror is a lithograph by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1935. The piece depicts a hand holding a reflective sphere. -
Lobster Telephone
Lobster Telephone is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James, a leading collector of surrealist art -
Le Déjeuner en fourrure
Object, lit. Object, known in English as Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur, is a 1936 sculpture by the surrealist Méret Oppenheim, consisting of a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon. -
Swans Reflecting Elephants
Swans Reflecting Elephants is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. Painted using oil on canvas, it contains one of Dalí's famous double images. -
Not to be Reproduced
Not to Be Reproduced is a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. It is currently owned by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This painting was commissioned by poet and Magritte patron Edward James and is considered a portrait of James although James's face is not depicted. -
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man is a 1943 painting by Salvador Dalí. The painting was done during Dalí's stay in the United States from 1940 to 1948. It is said to be one of his most recognizable paintings. It is of a man scrambling out of an egg while a gender-ambiguous adult and child look on. -
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. A shorter alternate title for the painting is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee. It was painted in 1944, and the woman in the painting, dreaming, is said to represent his wife, Gala. -
Without Hope
Without Hope is a Surrealist Oil on Panel Painting created by Frida Kahlo in 1945. It lives at the Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Self-portraits and Suffering. At first glance, this self-portrait by Frida Kahlo reads as a surrealist nightmare. -
The Elephants
The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. -
Christ of Saint John on the Cross
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1951 which is in the collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. It depicts Jesus Christ on the cross in a darkened sky floating over a body of water complete with a boat and fishermen. -
Golconda
Golconda is an oil painting on canvas by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, painted in 1953. It is usually housed at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. -
Marxism will Give Health to the Sick
In Marxism Will Give Health to the Ill, Frida Kahlo refers to the trust in communism that was common during that age. In this portrait, the artist conjures the utopian conception of political belief that could release her from her pain. Supported in her ideology, she can go on without the crutches. -
The Son of Man
The Son of Man is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. -
The Broken Column
The Broken Column is an oil on masonite painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1944 shortly after she had spinal surgery to correct on-going problems which had resulted from a serious traffic accident when she was 18 years old.