Surrealism of Rat Mutant

Venture into the shadowy corridors of the surrealist imagination, and you will find a peculiar, persistent figure: the rat mutant. In the early twentieth century, as artists plunged into the depths of the unconscious, the image of the rat began to surface with an uncanny frequency. But why this creature? For figures like Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, the rat symbolized both primal fear and trans...