Surreal. It’s one of those words like insane or awesome that’s taken a beating from aggressive misuse. I’ve heard the term applied to both a bus driver wearing a funny hat and the sight of the second ...

It is one of the legacies of Freud that we see scribbles on paper as revealing something about the unconscious mind of the person who drew them. A new show organized by the Morgan Library’s Isabelle ...

The Surrealists revered the unpredictable depths of the unconscious mind and the artists often turned to drawing as a way of revealing unexpected connections and disruptions as thoughts made visible ...

Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...

André Masson, “La mer se retire” (“The Sea Withdraws,” 1941) (all images courtesy Galerie Natalie Seroussi) (click to enlarge) An expanded field of subjects pervades the visual lexicon of Surrealism, ...

The practice of drawing in Europe is as old as the lines in the caves at Lascaux, but there was a major change during the Renaissance: works on paper became valued on their own terms, not just as ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Surrealism and Expressionism were dead in the water as viable strategies for making worthwhile new art. The commercial language of Pop, the strict geometries of ...