Surrealism was an international artistic and political movement. Many artists from around the world gathered in Paris, the capital of art. The entire activity was almost centered in Paris or Europe before World War II. Among these artists, only A. Masson was French. For example, Victor Brauner (1903-1966) came from Romania; Y. Tanguy (1900-1955), Lam, and R. Matta (1911-1994) all came from South America.

Victor Brauner was the most colorful and versatile artist of Surrealism. He not only painted but also sculpted. His works combined many realistic symbols and new images of mythological figures, creating a magical inner world through the subconscious and experience. Between humor and imagination, tenderness and pessimism, alienation and unease, simplicity and magnificence, he said: "Every painting comes from anxiety deep within." Intending to repair time, he created unusual images and fantasies that transcended various records, merging the mysterious worlds of humans, flower gods, and animal deities. After the war, he expressed universal archetypes through his reflections and borrowed passions from primitive art and mystical science.

Y. Tanguy focused on a fantastical world of unconstrained imagination. Through the combination of indeterminate small objects, he constructed a boundless fantasy realm, displaying imagined objects and magical spaces, such as Slow Play (1937).

R. Matta (1911-2002) was the most representative second-generation Surrealist artist. With a cosmic explosion form of psychological states, filled with magical swirls of light and air, extraordinary space-time, and complex fantasy images, he revealed an extraordinary mysterious world. Between perception and imagination, psychology and physics, matter and spirit, dreams and illusions, non-figurative and abstract, he deeply explored the unconscious desires of the inner self, as seen in World of Magical Light (1945).