{"id":1290,"date":"2021-10-19T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2021-10-19T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:52:34","slug":"surrealism-beyond-europe-5-essential-artists-getting-recognition-at-new-met-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/surrealism-beyond-europe-5-essential-artists-getting-recognition-at-new-met-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealism Beyond Europe: 5 Essential Artists Getting Recognition at New Met Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, the common misconception about Surrealism was that it was mainly a European movement, with Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Salvador Dal\u00ed, Max Ernst, and others as its leaders. Gradually, that notion is changing. Feminists have added to the Surrealist canon female artists like Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, and M\u00e9ret Oppenheim, and acclaimed surveys outside the U.S. have brought increased attention to figures like Wifredo Lam, Herv\u00e9 T\u00e9l\u00e9maque, and Remedios Varo. As a\u00a0new kind of surrealism<\/a>\u00a0takes root among today\u2019s younger female painters, a new understanding of the movement is also blooming.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s current exhibition \u201cSurrealism Beyond Borders\u201d reflects this momentum. Curated by Stephanie D\u2019Alessandro and Matthew Gale with Lauren Rosati, Sean O\u2019Hanlan, and Carine Harmand, the show, which heads to Tate Modern in London after its run in New York, aims to prove that Surrealism was hardly confined to Europe. If anything, this survey suggests that, once Surrealism got its start in Paris in the \u201920s, the movement\u2019s influence could not be contained. Surrealism\u2019s tendrils wound their way from France to the Philippines and back again, and in the process caught the eye of curious artists who sought to reproduce\u2014and subvert\u2014European Surrealism\u2019s Freud-inspired dreaminess.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurrealism Beyond Borders<\/a>\u201d does feature works by well-known artists\u2014Dal\u00ed, Tanning, Lam, and more are well-represented. Yet the overwhelming majority of the 300-plus works on view are by artists who are hardly household names in the U.S. And indeed, many of these artists hail from far beyond Europe. Below is a look at how five lesser-known artists took Surrealism into their own hands and rendered it anew.<\/p>\n