Andre Breton (1896 –1966): A French writer and poet, best known as the “Founder of Surrealism”. René Magritte (1898-1967): A Belgian Surrealist artist who became well known for his witty and thought-provoking images that challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): A French-American painter, sculptor and writer who challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing through subversive actions. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.
Max Ernst (1891– 1976): A German painter and sculptor who was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism, and famous for his decalcomania works.
Man Ray (1890-1976): an American modernist artist best known for his experimental photography and as creator of the Ray-O-Graph.
Joan Miro (1893-1983): Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist known for his childlike, colourful paintings and as the inventor of automatic drawing.
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978): A Greek-born Italian artist who founded the Metaphysical art movement, characterized by his dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow which often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality.
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955): A French surrealist painter known for his nonrepresentational surrealist paintings which of vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colours.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989): A Spanish surrealist painter best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954): A Mexican painter, not strictly part of the surrealist movement, best known for her self-portraits which offer an uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Méret Oppenheim (1913-1985): a German-born Swiss, Surrealist artist, and photographer, best known for her sculpture series of a teacup, saucer and spoon covered with fur from a Chinese gazelle.
James Gleeson (1915