Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris

male, 81 years old
Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He...
Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

male, deceased (1982)
Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (December 2 1902, Sagua La Grande, Villa Clara Province-September 11 1982, Paris), better known as Wi...
James Ensor

James Ensor

male, deceased (1949)
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important precursor to expressionism and surrealism who...
Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

female, deceased (1907) (buenos aires, Argentina)
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Leonor Fini moved to Paris in 1937 and exhibited with the leaders of the Surrealist movement. Cocteau, Dali, Ernst...

David Harrison

male, 33 years old
David Harrison is an artist based in London. Influenced by fairy tales, he paints naïve and surreal scenes that juxtapose, often humorously, human a...
Jack Chambers

Jack Chambers

male, deceased (1978)
John "Jack" Chambers (March 25, 1931-April 13, 1978) was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, he spent eight years (1953-1961)...
Vasko Popa

Vasko Popa

male, deceased (1991)
Vasko Popa was a Serbian poet of Romanian descent. Not much is known about Vasko Popa’s private life. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a...
Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy

male, deceased (1960)
Pierre Reverdy is a French poet associated with surrealism and cubism. Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne and grew up near the Montagne Noire in...
Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

female, deceased (1954)
Claude Cahun (25 October, 1894 - 8 December, 1954) was a French photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played...

Paul Éluard

male, deceased (1952)
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Grindel, a French poet born in Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, who was active in the surrealist mo...