Curators unpack Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist symbolism ahead of a major survey of her work at Tate Modern in London.
Curators unpack Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist symbolism ahead of a major survey of her work at Tate Modern in London.
Curators unpack Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist symbolism ahead of a major survey of her work at Tate Modern in London.
Curators unpack Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist symbolism ahead of a major survey of her work at Tate Modern in London.
Curators unpack Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist symbolism ahead of a major survey of her work at Tate Modern in London.
Tanning gives full expression to her childhood imagination and its innately eclectic catalogue of fears, fantasies and domestic psychodramas
As a major retrospective of the American artist’s work opens at Tate Modern, co-curator Ann Coxon reveals the label-defying feats that defined her extraordinary career
On Fire, 1949 Dorothea Tanning Born: Galesburg, Illinois 1910 pencil and colored pencil on paper sheet and image: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (35.4 x 25.1 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock 1995.10 The breathless, fleeing girl with clothing in flames epitomizes Tanning’s surreal narratives. The ambiguity of the half-clothed figure suggests a state of metamorphosis. Her forward thrust is thwarted by a brick wall that swallows her forearms, as in a nightmare. Tanning had fled Paris on the brink of war in 1939, and she returned in 1949 to a devastated city. Despite the possible biographical connection, the meaning of this image is unclear because, as the artist explained, “My work is about the enigmatic, about leaving the door open to imagination.” Personal, educational and non-commercial use of digital images from the American Art Museum's collection is permitted, with attribution to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for all images unless otherwise noted. americanart.si.edu/collections/rights
Dorothea Tanning: Web of Dreams, Alison Jacques Gallery
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a painter, writer, sculptor, alchemist, visionary, and was the darling of the 1930s Surrealism movement. "I didn't think of myself as a Surrealist. I try not to think of myself as anything. We all have these egos, you know", she explains. For biographical notes -in english and italian- and paintings by Carrington see Leonora Carrington ~ Surrealist painter and sculptor | Painting.
Well, here’s where I’ll disagree with all his fanbase. To start with, he was kicked out and banned from the Surrealist group due to his greed and political
Johfra Bosschart (1919-1998) was a Dutch painter known for his surrealist and mystical paintings that often incorporated astrological symbolism. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Early LifeMaldoror SeriesThe Zodiac SeriesAmsterdam 1981 and the Following Year:Johfra Bosschart: Occult Surrealist:LegacyFrequently Asked Questions In the 1950s, Bosschart
Kellee is recently obsessed with the painter, Remedios Varo (1908-1963), who was born in Spain but spent most of her artistic life in Mexico. Like most women painters, she is vastly underrecognized, even though she made a major feminist intervention into the prevailing surrealist ethos of her time. In the one substantial edition available of […]
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.
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Discover the magical dreamscapes, mysterious creatures, and trailblazing life of Leonora Carrington—the oft-forgotten, British-Mexican Surrealist painter of the 20th century.
By the time she was 30, the formidable painter and writer Leonora Carrington had had an affair with Max Ernst, endured a nervous breakdown, been forcibly installed in a mental institution, fled to Mexico, and written a harrowing memoir about madness...
