Occult paintings and mystical visions of female surrealist Ithell Colquhoun
Visionary paintings rooted in ritual, automatism, and mystical symbolism.
Surrealism
‘Europe after the Rain,’ classic documentary on Dada and Surrealism
‘Portrait of Andre Breton’ by Man Ray, c. 1930 Europe after the Rain, the Arts Council of Great Britain’s 1978 documentary on Dada and Surrealism,…
In Dreams: Grete Stern’s powerful feminist surrealism
In 1948, the photographer Grete Stern was asked to contribute photographic illustrations for a weekly column on the interpretation of dreams in the Argentinian women’s…
From Russia with drugs: The twisted erotic surrealism of Dmitry Vorsin
A creation of artist Dmitry Vorsin. According to Australian art collective beinArt the Surrealist responsible for the provacative Dali-esque creations in this post is Russian…
The Stranglers appear in a BBC documentary about surrealism, 1978
George Melly (1926-2007) I have a hard time picturing the Dangerous Minds reader who wouldn’t fall in love with the rakish, bisexual jazz singer and…
Monsters, death and the Mona Lisa stripping: Lorenzo Alessandri, father of Italian surrealism
At the end of World War II, Italian artist Lorenzo Alessandri opened up his first studio, naming it “Attic Macabre,” a clear indication of his…
British pagan festival costumes are avant-garde high fashion surrealism
I am in love with this pagan portraiture series from photographer Henry Bourne–and frankly a little jealous! While we Americans are left with trace amounts…
The strange and lovely Surrealism of ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ in the ’30s
This is the second installation of posts from the influential graphic artist Art Chantry’s forthcoming book Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of 20th Century…
Psychoactive sci-fi surrealism: The book covers that inspired XTC’s Andy Partridge
I’d love to live in a world where the great commercial artists of the past—the visionary men and women who could easily have been heralded…