Flashcards: Surrealism

Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German naturalized Argentine photographer.

Pierre Reverdy (French: [ʁəvɛʁdi]; September 13, 1889 – June 17, 1960) was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism.

Alberto Savinio [alˈbɛrto saˈvinjo], real name Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 – 5 May 1952) was an Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer.

La Révolution surréaliste (English: The Surrealist Revolution) was a publication by the Surrealists in Paris.

Pierre Naville (1903 – 23 April 1993) was a French Surrealist writer and sociologist.

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí.

Hélène Smith (real name Catherine-Elise Müller, December 9, 1861, Martigny ― June 10, 1929 Geneva) was a famous late-19th century French medium.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer.

The Treachery of Images (French: La trahison des images [la tʁaizɔ̃ dez imaʒ], 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) is a painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.

Georges Schehadé (2 November 1905 – 17 January 1989) was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French.

Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos.

Aquis Submersus (Latin for Water Drowning) is a painting by the German dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst created in 1919.

The Salvador Dalí Museum is an art museum in St.

Locus Solus is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel.

Stanley William Hayter CBE (December 27, 1901 – May 4, 1988) was an English painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism.

Tan Tolga Demirci (born 31 December 1974, İstanbul) is a director, writer.

The International Surrealist Exhibition was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries in London, England.

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.

The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures.

Edward William Frank James (16 August 1907 – 2 December 1984) was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.

Dali's Mustache (American English: /dɑːlɪsˈmʌstæʃ/) is an absurdist humorous book by the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) and his friend, the photographer Philippe Halsman (1906–1979).

Arturo Umberto Samuele Schwarz (born February 3, 1924) is an Italian scholar, art historian, poet, writer, lecturer, art consultant and curator of international art exhibitions.

Suzanne Muzard or Musard (1900–1992) was a French prostitute and photographer associated with surrealism.

Robert Melville (31 December 1905 - March 1986) was an English art critic and journalist.

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Juan Eduardo Cirlot Laporta (9 April 1916 – 11 May 1973) was a Spanish poet, art critic, hermeneutist, mythologist, and musician.

Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic.

The Harlequin's Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval d'Arlequin) is an oil painting rendered by Joan Miró between 1924 and 1925.