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Surrealism

77 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Afarin SajediIllustrator · IllustrationAfarin Sajedi (born 1979) is an Iranian painter and illustrator, from Shiraz. Her paintings are predominantly figurative and feature women merged with a variety of animals or objects.
Alejo CarpanterAuthor · BooksAlejo Carpentier y Valmont (karpanˈtje; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its…
Alfred PellanIllustrator · IllustrationAlfred Pellan (born Alfred Pelland; 16 May 1906 – 31 October 1988) was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.
Ali DivandariArtist · Comics and comic artHe was born in Sabzevar.
Andreas EmbirikosAuthor · BooksAndreas Embirikos (embiˈrikos Andréas Empeiríkos; September 2, 1901 – August 3, 1975) was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts.
Ángeles Santos TorroellaIllustrator · IllustrationÁngeles Santos Torroella (7 November 1911 – 3 October 2013) was a Spanish surrealist painter.
Anna ChromýArtist · PaintingsAnna Chromy (18 July 1940 – 18 September 2021) was a Czech-German painter and sculptor. At the end of World War II, Chromy's family was expelled from Czechoslovakia to Vienna, Austria.
Claude CahunArtist · SculptureClaude Cahun (born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
Conroy MaddoxArtist · PaintingsConroy Maddox (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005) was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement.
David LynchArtist · PaintingsDavid Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker and artist.
E. E. CummingsArtist · PaintingsEdward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
Emmy BridgwaterArtist · PaintingsEmma Frith Bridgwater (10 November 1906 – 13 March 1999), known as Emmy Bridgwater, was an English artist and poet associated with the Surrealist movement.
Endre RozsdaArtist · PaintingsEndre Rozsda (Rozsda Endre; 18 November 1913, Mohács – 16 September 1999, Paris) was a Hungarian-French painter.
Eric de KolbArtist · SculptureEric de Kolb (March 10, 1916 – April 14, 2001) was an Austrian-born surrealistic artist, painter, sculptor, jewelry and fashion designer, commercial artist, and package designer.
Francis BaconDesigner · Modern designFrancis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.
Frida KahloArtist · PaintingsMagdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (ˈfɾiða ˈkalo; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and…
Gaston BogaertIllustrator · IllustrationGaston Bogaert (1918 in Le Mans – 2008 in Etterbeek) was a Belgian painter.
Gennadiy AygiAuthor · BooksGennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi (Генна́дий Никола́евич Айги́; 21 August 1934 – 21 February 2006) was a Russian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.
Gonzalo RojasAuthor · BooksGonzalo Rojas Pizarro (December 20, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century.
Hajime SawatariPhotographer · PhotographyHajime Sawatari is a Japanese photographer. He is known for his fashion and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women.
Haruki MurakamiAuthor · BooksHaruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold…
Jacek YerkaArtist · PaintingsJacek Yerka (born Jacek Kowalski in 1952) is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń. Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States.
Jean-Claude FourneauArtist · PaintingsJean-Claude Fourneau (28 March 1907 – 9 October 1981) was a French painter, who was close to the surrealist movement.
Joan BrossaArtist · SculptureJoan Brossa (19 January 1919 – 30 December 1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist. He wrote only in the Catalan language.
Joan MiróEngraver · Prints
John AshberyAuthor · BooksJohn Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
Juan Manuel Ugarte EléspuruArtist · SculptureJuan Manuel Ugarte Eléspuru (1911–2004) was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, writer, academic administrator, and historian.
Julio CortázarAuthor · BooksJulio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
Kay SageIllustrator · IllustrationKatherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963.
Lee MillerPhotographer · PhotographyElizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977) was an American photographer and photojournalist.
Leonora CarringtonArtist · PaintingsMary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist.
Louis AragonAuthor · BooksLouis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃]; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.
Louis ScutenaireAuthor · BooksLouis Scutenaire (29 June 1905 – 15 August 1987) was a Belgian French-language poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant.
Luis BuñuelPerson · Film memorabilia
Man RayArtist · PaintingsMan Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.
Marcel DuchampEngraver · PrintsHenri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (lang; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the…
Marcel MalherbeIllustrator · IllustrationMarcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer.
Meret OppenheimAuthor · BooksMeret (or Méret) Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.
Miguel Ángel AsturiasAuthor · BooksMiguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (lang; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.
Moseka Yogo AmbakeArtist · CeramicsMoseka Yogo Ambake or Yogo Ambake Moseka (29 August 19566 May 2019) was a Congolese-born painter who later lived and worked in Brussels, Belgium.
Paul NashEngraver · PrintsPaul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art.
Philippe SoupaultAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Philippe Soupault by Robert Delaunay (1922)
Pierre MolinierPhotographer · PhotographyPierre Molinier (13 April 1900 – 3 March 1976) was a French painter, photographer and "maker of objects".
Radovan IvšićAuthor · BooksRadovan Ivšić (June 22, 1921 – December 25, 2009) was a Croatian writer, best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno.
Raúl RuizPerson · Film memorabiliaRaúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (Raoul Ruiz; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France.
Remedios VaroArtist · PaintingsMaría de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remei or Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish surrealist painter, writer, and graphic artist.
René CrevelAuthor · BooksRené Crevel (lang; 10 August 1900 – 18 June 1935) was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement.
René IchéArtist · SculptureRené Iché (French pronunciation: [ʁəne iʃe]; 21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor.
Robert ColescottEngraver · PrintsRobert H. Colescott (August 26, 1925 – June 4, 2009) was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter…
Samuel Jessurun de MesquitaDesigner · Modern designSamuel Jessurun de Mesquita (6 June 1868 – c. 11 February 1944) was a Dutch graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War.
Suzanne CésaireAuthor · BooksSuzanne Césaire (lang; née Roussi; 11 August 1915 – 16 May 1966) was a French writer, teacher, scholar, anti-colonial and feminist activist, and Surrealist.
Tristan TzaraArtist · PaintingsTristan Tzara (lang; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist.
Victor BraunerArtist · PaintingsVictor Brauner (also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealist movement. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1963.
Victorina DuránDesigner · Modern design
Wifredo LamArtist · Ceramics
Xul SolarArtist · PaintingsXul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.

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