The female Surrealists sort of treat women as looking inward.»
We looked at artists that I still love to this day,
the female Surrealists: Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo.
So, Kahlo is sitting this one out as we highlight eight historical
female Surrealists whose careers spanned everything from painting to poetry.
In that carefully selected group, we can also count a number of
female Surrealists like Dorothea Tanning, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois.
Ernst visited Tanning's studio while selecting works by
female surrealists for the Art of This Century gallery owned by his wife, Peggy Guggenheim.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has put together a modest but eye - opening display of works created and inspired by
female Surrealists
For too long she has been remembered as the token
female surrealist painter - surely now she can be recognised as something special?
In 2010, the Brooklyn Museum mounted Seductive Subversion, highlighting overlooked female pop artists working between 1958 and 1968; in 2012, the L.A. County Museum of Art staged In Wonderland, showcasing
female surrealist painters in Mexico and the U.S.
In 2012, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art mounted the first major exhibition of
female surrealist artists with «In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States,» featuring 170 works from 48 artists.
Despite the deprecation of women implicit in numerous surrealist works, there were several important
female surrealist artists, notably Valentine Hugo (1887 - 1968), Eileen Agar (1899 - 1991), Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Leonor Fini (1908 - 96), Jacqueline Breton (1910 - 2003), Dorothea Tanning (b. 1910), Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) and Meret Oppenheim (1913 - 85) and Lenora Carrington (b. 1917).
Not exact matches
As feminist art sought visual form for the depiction of
female sexual desire, the
surrealist movement provided important models.
Her work weaves elements of East African mythology, as seen in the nguva, with Afro -
surrealist elements of science fiction and fantasy, critiques of African and
female stereotypes, and universal notions of power, race, and colonialism.
With absurdist images and
surrealist GIFs, the Berlin - based artist explores sexuality and
female objectification using disembodied breasts.
Double exposure, solarization, combination printing, montage, rotations, and other forms of distortions were employed by the
Surrealists to render their photographs of
female nudes uncanny and dreamlike.
Visitors will have the pleasure to meet Ryden's
surrealist world populated by the likes of President Lincoln, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Father Christmas and countless doll - like
female characters with enormous soulful eyes.
The irregular squares of Shostakovich and Executive Yoga recall Malevich and Albers, respectively; while the truncated but suggestive
female legs of Wild Orchid has an uncanny,
surrealist allure.
White Cube's latest exhibition reveals how there is a vast and raging
female presence amongst those associated with the
surrealist movement.
The latter brought together
surrealist works by 50
female artists — from historical figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning to their contemporary successors including Julie Curtiss, Tomoko Kashiki and Julia Phillips.
With a strong
surrealist strain, and including a welcome number of
female artists, highlights from the 48th edition of the photography festival
Feb 1: Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) Dorothea Tanning, who was one of the few
female artists involved in the
surrealist movement, died this week at her home in New York, aged 101.
In 1947 her work was included in an international exhibition of surrealism in New York, where she was the only
female British artist featured, establishing her pivotal role within the
surrealist movement.
There are no really significant
female Fauves or Cubists, no
female Italian Futurists (though a few Russian ones), and even among the core
Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists (though the AbEx show now a the R.A. makes some attempt to prove the contrary), or the Pop Art movement, women don't seem to have played an absolutely major role.