Now you know a little more about surrealism, what do you think?
Which surrealist artist is your favourite?
What unexpected things would you put together? How about drawing a tree wearing a scarf or a squirrel with a monocle?!
More surrealist art
René Magritte
Man with a Newspaper
1928
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© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020
Claude Cahun
I Extend My Arms
1931 or 1932
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© The estate of Claude Cahun
Giorgio de Chirico
The Uncertainty of the Poet
1913
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© DACS, 2020
Marcel Mariën
Star Dancer
1991
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© DACS, 2020
Leonora Carrington
Do You Know My Aunt Eliza?
1941
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© The estate of the artist, DACS, 2020
Max Ernst
Celebes
1921
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© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020
Joan Miró
The Conductor
1976
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© Succession Miro/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020
Paul Nash
Landscape from a Dream
1936–8
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Sir Roland Penrose
Le Grand Jour
1938
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© The estate of Sir Roland Penrose
Salvador Dalí
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
1937
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© Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/DACS, London 2020
Dorothea Tanning
Some Roses and Their Phantoms
1952
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© DACS, 2020