Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s

Ninety Surrealist masterworks by Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson, Pablo Picasso, and others are presented through the lens of violence and exileduring the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Monsters in the real world compelled these artists to create some of the most striking Surrealist paintings, sculptures, films, journals, and artists’ books.