“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives.

Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

One of the most fascinating art movements of all time, one that is also referred to as rather weird and unconventional, is the Surrealist era, or the Surrealism movement. Breaking off from the ...

Last year, at the age of 58, Julian Dix fatefully put aside his 30-year career as a goldsmith to paint full time. He felt that if he didn’t commit to art, it might never happen. So the jewellery maker ...

The artist Remedios Varo (1908-63) was a voracious reader and a fan of science-fiction authors such as Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. Her paintings might seem like scenes out of a ...

David Hutchison's inspirational great aunt Seordag Murray, middle, with the artist's grandmother Chrissie and mother Joan A Scottish artist has drawn on his upbringing among some of the last native ...

CALAMBA, Misamis Occidental (PIA) – Moving past realism, an artist in Calamba Misamis Occidental explores surrealism where he combines whimsy, bold colors, and beyond-reality concepts through his ...

Hartford is in artist Morgan Bulkeley’s blood. His great-grandfather was the third president of Aetna, the 54th governor of Connecticut and a U.S. senator. A bridge, a street and a high school in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Scottish artist has drawn on his upbringing among some of the last native Gaelic speakers in Assynt for a series of new and surreal paintings. David Hutchison is based in Edinburgh, where his new ...