Dorothea Tanning’s work explores womanhood and imaginary worlds, but only now is it getting the recognition it deserves. When the surrealist artist Max Ernst turned up at Dorothea Tanning’s ...

Surrealism is a style of art inspired by dreams and hidden thoughts ... Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Surrealists believed that human beings should be free from the usual thoughts and rules ...

Surrealist artists such as Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, and Remedios Varo practiced this technique. In Varo’s Caravan, she used decalcomania when creating the background of the painting ...