Art Of The Day Weekly

From Surrealism to Revolution

Collectors of the world, unite! This is the message put out by the exhibition Mad About Surrealism at the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, from 11 February to 28 May 2017. It studies the beginnings of Surrealism through four rarely shown, award-winning collections, among them the one of Roland Penrose, Lee Miller’s husband and the biographer of Picasso, and Edward James, the patron of the arts who had an amazing house-garden built for himself in Mexico. Art déco in Italiathe San Domenico Museums in Forlì, from 11 February to 18 June 2017 sheds light on the iconic style of the twenties and thirties in its elegant and sophisticated Italian version. Another exhibition on a collective movement, Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy in London, from 11 February to 17 April 2017 will analyze fifteen major years between WWII and the Moscow trials, with artists as varied as Deineka, Malevitch, Chagall.