_May 15 – Dada and Surrealism in Europe
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Precursors
Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897
*Giorgio de Chirico, The Philosopher's Conquest, late 1913–early 1914
Dada
Tristan Tzara, ed., Dada 3, Zurich, December 1918
Hugo Ball, Karawane, 1917
Jean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the
Laws of Chance), 1916-17)
Francis Picabia, M'Amenez-y, 1919-20
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919
Bicycle Wheel, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)
*Hat Rack, 1964 (1916 original now lost)
Fountain, 1917, replica 1964
Hans Richter, Ghosts Before Breakfast, 1928
George Grosz, "The Convict": Monteur John Heartfield after Franz Jung's
Attempt to Get Him Up on His Feet, 1920
*Kurt Schwitters, Merz, 1922
Hannah Höch, Dada Dolls, 1916
Surrealism
Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924
*Forest and Sun, 1927
Attirement of the Bride, 1940
*René Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938
The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), 1929
*Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1928
*Man Ray, Chess Set, 1927
*Marcel Duchamp, Pocket Chess Set, 1944
*Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, and Max Morise, Exquisite Corpse, 1928
*Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Max Morise, and André Breton, Exquisite Corpse, 1928
*Wilhelm Freddie, Portable Garbo, 1941
*Angel Planells, Midday Sorrow, 1932
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
*Inventions of the Monsters, 1937
*The Anthropomorphic Tower, 1930
*Pablo Picasso, Untitled (Devil), 1952
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog),1929
*Salvador Dalí, Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35
* Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936
Lobster Telephone, 1936
Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936
*Man Ray, Cadeau (Gift), 1963 (1921 original now lost)
* What We All Lack, 1963 (1935 original now lost)
*Claude Cahun, Object, 1936
Jindřich Heisler, Untitled, 1944
* Victor Brauner, Turning Point of Thirst, 1934
Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait, c. 1937–38
* Joan Miró, Figure, 1932
The Tilled Field, 1923-4
Additional Resources:
Automatism, Dada, Decalcomania, Exquisite Corpse, Frottage, Grottage, Paranoiac-Critical Method, Psychoanalysis, Surrealism
Objects denoted with an asterisk (*) are part of the Art Institute's collection and link directly to the Art Institute's My Collections page. My Collections is a free online feature that allows you to create, save, and share your own collection of select artworks at the Art Institute. To learn more about starting your own My Collections account please visit the About My Collections page.
Precursors
Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897
*Giorgio de Chirico, The Philosopher's Conquest, late 1913–early 1914
Dada
Tristan Tzara, ed., Dada 3, Zurich, December 1918
Hugo Ball, Karawane, 1917
Jean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the
Laws of Chance), 1916-17)
Francis Picabia, M'Amenez-y, 1919-20
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919
Bicycle Wheel, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)
*Hat Rack, 1964 (1916 original now lost)
Fountain, 1917, replica 1964
Hans Richter, Ghosts Before Breakfast, 1928
George Grosz, "The Convict": Monteur John Heartfield after Franz Jung's
Attempt to Get Him Up on His Feet, 1920
*Kurt Schwitters, Merz, 1922
Hannah Höch, Dada Dolls, 1916
Surrealism
Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924
*Forest and Sun, 1927
Attirement of the Bride, 1940
*René Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938
The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), 1929
*Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1928
*Man Ray, Chess Set, 1927
*Marcel Duchamp, Pocket Chess Set, 1944
*Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, and Max Morise, Exquisite Corpse, 1928
*Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Max Morise, and André Breton, Exquisite Corpse, 1928
*Wilhelm Freddie, Portable Garbo, 1941
*Angel Planells, Midday Sorrow, 1932
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
*Inventions of the Monsters, 1937
*The Anthropomorphic Tower, 1930
*Pablo Picasso, Untitled (Devil), 1952
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog),1929
*Salvador Dalí, Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35
* Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936
Lobster Telephone, 1936
Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936
*Man Ray, Cadeau (Gift), 1963 (1921 original now lost)
* What We All Lack, 1963 (1935 original now lost)
*Claude Cahun, Object, 1936
Jindřich Heisler, Untitled, 1944
* Victor Brauner, Turning Point of Thirst, 1934
Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait, c. 1937–38
* Joan Miró, Figure, 1932
The Tilled Field, 1923-4
Additional Resources:
- Ades, Dawn. Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Thames & Hudson, 1997
- Documents of Dada and Surrealism (Mary Reynolds Collection, Art Institute of Chicago)
- Brotchie, Alistair and Mel Gooding, eds. A Book of Surrealist Games. Shambhala Publications, 1995
- Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
- Dada (Guggenheim)
- Surrealism (Guggenheim)
- Dada (MoMA)
- Surrealism (MoMA)
- Dada (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Dada (Tate)
- Surrealism (Tate)
Automatism, Dada, Decalcomania, Exquisite Corpse, Frottage, Grottage, Paranoiac-Critical Method, Psychoanalysis, Surrealism