"Doing surrealism" can be fun if you can paint, or very frustrating if you struggle with your drawing and painting skills. So technically, surrealist art is based on the artist's skills of realistic painting. read more
Surrealism is a revolution of the mind, a fundamentally different way of thinking. Surrealism is, among other things, a recognition that the established forms of our social and intellectual and aesthetic life have run their course to completion, and ultimately fail. read more
Some of us are struck with these idea bolts all day every day, and for others of us, we’re lucky if we get one idea a month like this. You can’t force these flashes of inspiration. They just happen to you. read more
Drawing Surrealism, which opens on Sunday, October 21 (and opens to members on Thursday), highlights the surrealist use of drawing-based techniques, such as automatic drawing, frottage, collage, the game of exquisite corpse, and decalcomania, as means to bypass the rational mind and tap into the subconscious realm. read more