British-born Mexican painter, sculptor and writer Leonora Carrington was born on 1917 in Lancashire, northern England to an aristocratic family. Presented to King as a debutant, objected to the traditional life style of the English upper class, against her parents’ wishes, she began to study art. Moved to Paris and got involved with Surrealism and the artists with that movement such as Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Salvador Dalì and more.

'Disconcerting, touching, surreal, magnetic, Alexandra Levasseur’s work illustrates the complex, constantly changing spectrum of human emotions. This...

Soy mucho. Soy exageradamente denso. Soy desmedido más, que siempre es más. Abrumo, saturo, colmato. Zahiero con mi verbo caustico. Silbo en el silencio de sabor amargo. Soy tanto, que he desmochado mi torre para ser menos, y aun siendo ciudadela rendida y cercenada, sigo siendo más.

From: VOGUE JAPAN (December, 2011) by Pierre Mornet »bigger image here!«

Wonderful, scuzzy scenes of daily ablutions, printed using lithography, by Russian artist Natasha Uspenskaya

The swimmer, 2016 by Kevin Lucbert on Flickr.

Nicoletta Ceccoli’s paintings are the visual counterparts of fairy tales. Beautiful, whimsical, and wondrous yet more gruesome than they initially seem.

À travers ses peintures, Monica Rohan place des jeunes filles dissimulées au milieu de montagnes de fleurs et de végétaux, s’agrippant à de grandes �