Art History

Surrealist Artists

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Reinvention of the Ordinary

René Magritte

Are words things? The illusions of language. The language of illusion.

Agent provocateur

Salvador Dali

Controversial, Catholic and fascist, precursor to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

Northwest Coast Art and the Surrealists

Kurt Seligmann and Wolfgang Paalen (and their travelling companions). In 1938, Seligmann travelled with his wife to British Columbia, taking hundreds of photographs and amassing a collection, including the great totem pole now in the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Globe and Mail Newspaper article

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