The Birmingham Surrealists were an informal grouping of artists and intellectuals associated with the Surrealist movement in art, based in Birmingham, England...

various techniques has been one of many subjects of disagreement. Some Surrealists consider automatism and games to be sources of inspiration only, while...

Another English Surrealist group developed in Birmingham, meanwhile, and was distinguished by its opposition to the London surrealists and preferences...

collective activity of the surrealists revolves." Surrealism draws upon irrational imagery and the subconscious mind. Surrealists should not, however, be...

20th century, several avant-garde movements, including the dadaists, surrealists, and futurists began to argue for an art that was random, jarring and...

leader of the group of artists and craftsmen known as the Birmingham Group. The Birmingham Surrealists were among the "harbingers of surrealism" in Britain...

Tunnard (1900–1971) Simon Watson Taylor (1923–2005) Surrealism Birmingham Surrealists Gaze, Delia (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys;...

Crevel and Georges Malkine as members of the surrealist movement. In 1929, Breton sent letters to surrealists asking them to evaluate their "degree of moral...

Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor W. Adorno, Max Paddison defines surrealist...

plane: a local context for the Birmingham Surrealists". In Sidey, Tessa (ed.). Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. pp...

conveyed through art. The Birmingham Surrealists had made contact with the London Surrealist Group around 1940 and ex Birmingham Group members such as Emmy...

movement. However, Miró chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists to be free to experiment with other artistic styles without compromising...

strongly influenced the Birmingham Group, which formed the link between late Romanticism in the visual arts and the Birmingham Surrealists who were prominent...

habits and ethics could be called anti-surrealist". The relationship between the surrealists of London and Birmingham improved greatly with the arrival in...

fʁɑ̃swa ɡilɛ̃ maɡʁit]; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected...

associated with the Surrealist movement. Based at times in both Birmingham and London, she was a significant member of the Birmingham Surrealists and of the London-based...

female surrealist Jacqueline Lamba. About her, Maar said, "I was closely linked with Jacqueline. She asked me, "where are those famous surrealists?" and...

the British Surrealist Group, Colquhoun was expelled in 1940, due to her refusal to comply with E.L.T. Mesens' demands that the surrealists should not...

January 2005) was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement. He was born in Ledbury...

(in 1944 and 1948), and also introduced her to the circle of émigré Surrealists whose work he was showing in his New York gallery, including the German...

writing produced by group members, it also influenced the medium of film. Surrealist films include Un chien andalou and L'Âge d'Or by Luis Buñuel and Dalí;...

novelist Henry Green, the sculptor Gordon Herickx and the Birmingham Surrealists; the Birmingham Group shared little stylistic unity, but had a common interest...

by Ehrenburg — along with all fellow surrealists — in a pamphlet which said, among other things, that surrealists shunned work, favouring parasitism, and...

city. Its exhibitions were an important post-war outlet for the Birmingham Surrealists, showing the work of Conroy Maddox, John Melville, Emmy Bridgwater...

working class scenes. The Birmingham Surrealists This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Birmingham Group. If an internal link...

Maddox and John Melville (his brother), he was a key member of the Birmingham Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s. An early biographer of Picasso, he later...

work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive...

Retrieved 30 June 2023 – via britannica.com. Montagu, J. (2002). The Surrealists. Revolutionaries in Art and Writing 1919–35. London: Tate Publishing...

Robert Melville and the artist Conroy Maddox, a key member of the Birmingham Surrealists from the 1930s to the 1950s. His choice of subjects as a painter...

society. Conroy Maddox described the importance of the society to the Birmingham Surrealists: "Evenings were spent in talk with Robert and John Melville, the...