Andrew Tolch—known in the art world as Andrew Torch—is a living, breathing, card-carrying Surrealist in regular contact with other declared Surrealists all over the world, writing communiqués and ...

Varo’s “Harmony (Suggestive Self-Portrait)” (1956), a self-depiction as a mystic in a hallowed space, evocative of Renaissance depictions of St Jerome, fetched $6.2mn in 2020. A retrospective at ...

“Sky is Falling,” a show of recent large-scale paintings by Julie Heffernan on view at the Crocker Art Museum, takes us into the realm of pop surrealism. Heffernan, a graduate of the University of ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.

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 ...

“The fragment is a really important structure for telling stories that have been heavily impacted by colonialism,” the film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich has said. “For so long, value has been placed ...

A PORTRAIT by a surrealist painter and writer, which she gave as a gift to her estranged lover, has been bought by the National Galleries of Scotland for more than half a million pounds. The painting ...