Surrealism is one of the more complex footnotes ... threatening to wake her from her dream with a single sting. Frida Kahlo’s ...

With so much of her art anchored in her own experience, she rejected the Surrealism label bestowed on her by an impressed André Breton, saying: ‘I never painted my dreams, I painted my own reality’ 4.

Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known Surrealist painters. Other surrealist artists include Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Surrealists believed that human beings ...

Yet the Americas have also been a ground of generative and tense critiques and even rejections of surrealism, from Frida Kahlo’s statement that she “painted her own reality” to the literary movements ...

Dutch designer Dieuweke van Reij conjures Kahlo’s world through bold colors, intricate textiles, and surrealist imagery. The level of craftsmanship is staggering - headdresses and garments ...