Man Ray in the 1920s used solarisation, which gives photographs negative and positive characteristics, a perfect technique for a surrealist.
His first stab at the art market a surrealist group exhibition was cut short by the outbreak of the second world war.
Once, she held a surrealist dinner, all diving suits and lobsters, over which she presided in a sheer green dress that was almost completely transparent.
So for example there was a surrealist philosopher called Francesc Pujols, who was a personal friend of Antonio Gaudi and a personal friend of Salvador Dali, and had a major influence on both those people as they did on him.
From Cardiff a selected exhibition will go on to tour visiting Leeds- where one of Richards' work is still on display since a major surrealist show in the 1980s - and the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea.
From "pina colada pillow" cocktails to extracting the unique flavor of prawn heads, his kitchen team provide the unexpected in a way the surrealist would likely have approved of.
She points out how Ms. Abercrombie added Surrealist elements: a wise or perhaps not wise owl, a phallic lighthouse and a conch shell, which refer to sexuality, according to Ms. Fort.
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Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.
Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).
For the last quarter of a century, Mr Cartier-Bresson eschewed photography, taking only the occasional snapshot of friends and family, and turning his attention to drawing. (He trained originally as a painter, his early work influenced by his friend, the surrealist artist Max Ernst.) He maintained that he scarcely wanted to discuss photography any more.
The couple is the exclusive dealer for photographer and surrealist artist David LaChapelle in Asia and launched their Hong Kong outpost with a successful show of Chinese artist Zao Wou-ki's colourful abstract canvases.
The Spanish Surrealist artist's 1949 watercolor and gouache drawing was one of more than a dozen works on display in the first exhibition of the gallery, launched last May by art collector Adam Lindemann.
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