The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams

Next date: Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 12:00 AM - Sunday, February 14, 2027

After its debut in Paris more than 100 years ago, Surrealism was taken up by individuals and groups around the world. The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams explores the long trajectory and the broad reach of surrealism as a state of mind, through a rich texture of paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects drawn from the remarkable collection of Tate, United Kingdom.

The exhibition includes works by the most familiar artists associated with surrealism, such as Eileen Agar, Jean Arp, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Lee Miller, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Dorothea Tanning, as well as some whose work deserves to be better known, such as Ithell Colquhoun, Kati Horna, Malangatana Ngwenya, Osamu Shiihara and Lionel Wendt.

Surrealism was deeply individual and was never a single, defined style, so the exhibition is organized around key themes that united the work of these diverse artists. These include the inspiration of dreams, the mysterious energies of the natural world, the politics of freedom, the power of unexpected objects and the liberation of repressed desires.

Image 1: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983). Women and Bird in the Moonlight , 1949. Oil paint on canvas, 32 x 26 in. Tate Modern. Purchased 1951, N06007

Image 2: René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967). The Future of Statues , 1937. Oil paint on plaster, 13 x 6 1/2 x 8 in. Tate Modern. Purchased 1981, T03258

 

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Artis—Naples, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, 34108, View Map

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