My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

In the living room of her Hyde Park apartment, University of Chicago graduate student Yuqing Zhu holds up Precession, her latest artwork, next to a print by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. Both ...

In the distance is the cinder-block wall that props up the Orientalist façade of historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, a street-hustling Minnie Mouse impersonator, Coca-Cola umbrellas, and all the ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Claude Cahun, the French surrealist photographer and writers whose works challenged norms around gender and sexuality in the early 20th century. Born on this day in ...

These pictures provide a peek into the imagination of Argentine artist Martin De Pasquale. He translates his dreams into surreal, photo-manipulated artworks. Using a combination of Photoshop CS5, 3Ds ...

The art movement originated in France in 1924 and quickly began influencing all forms of media across the globe.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...