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Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921. The word surrealism was first coined in March 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire. [10] He wrote in a letter to Paul Dermée: "All things considered, I think in fact it is better to adopt surrealism than supernaturalism, which I first used" [Tout bien examiné, je crois en effet qu'il vaut mieux adopter surréalisme que surnaturalisme que j'avais d'abord employé].
View was an American literary and art magazine published from 1940 to 1947 by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford, [1] and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. [2] The magazine is best known for introducing Surrealism to the American public. [3] The magazine was headquartered in New York City. [1] [2]
The Face of War (The Visage of War; in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) is an oil painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, from 1940. It was painted during a brief period when the artist lived in California. The painting is owned by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in Rotterdam [1]
Austinite Lars Frazer's late father, not usually into the arts, owned a tiny Surrealist painting, which ended up in Frazer's hands. It is now on display at the Blanton Museum of Art.
The Constellations are a series of 23 paintings on paper produced from January 1940 to September 1941 by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró.Art historians and museum curators have said of the paintings: "Universally considered one of the greatest achievements of his career", [1]: 1 p.
The Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme was an exhibition by surrealist artists that took place from January 17 to February 24, 1938, in the generously equipped Galérie Beaux-Arts, run by Georges Wildenstein, at 140, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris.