Surrealism

A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

The Morgan Library www.themorgan.org has mounted a large show that is open to the public until April 21 and definitely worth visiting.

"Bringing together more than 160 works on paper by such iconic artists as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, and Joan Miró, this is the first major exhibition to explore the central role of drawing in surrealism, one of the most important movements in twentieth-century art. Once considered a minor medium, drawing became a predominant means of expression and innovation among surrealist artists in the first half of the twentieth century, resulting in a rich array of graphic techniques including automatic drawing, collage, decalcomania, exquisite corpse, and frottage."

I then created a surrealist collage of my own: