A brush with Surrealist art

Mythology is at the core of the surrealist movement. "Surrealists believed mythologies brought human societies together by sharing common stories of their origins and associated rites," according to HKMoA's note on the exhibition.

The show is divided into thematic zones, with some of these dedicated specifically to paintings and sculptures inspired by mythical creatures such as Minotaur and Chimera. There is also one named Acephale, after an André Masson drawing of a headless male figure that went on the cover of a review journal of the same name launched by Georges Bataille in 1936.