#marie cerminova

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Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902-1980)—Three Dancers [oil on canvas, 1925]

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Toyen (Marie Čermínová), collages, c. 1967

Toyen (born Marie Čermínová; 21 September 1902 – 9 November 1980), was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. Via Wikipedia In 1923, the artist adopted the professional pseudonym Toyen.

The name Toyen has been suggested to be derived from the French word 'citoyen,' meaning citizen, but it has also been proposed to be a play on the Czech expression ‘to je on’ (‘it is he’). Toyen favored the gender-neutral name and would speak Czech in the masculine singular form. Vítězslav Nezval wrote that Toyen "refused... to use the feminine endings" when speaking in the first person.

Toyen left the family home at sixteen, and it has been speculated it was due to sympathy towards anarchism.

Toyen was assigned female at birth, but appears to have preferred a less-gendered identification. Some people compare Toyen with "other Surrealist women" (Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, and a handful of others) also via Wikipedia

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TOYEN / Composition surréaliste, 1936

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Toyen, ie Marie Čermínová (1902-1980), Le Port, 1925, huile sur toile.

[The Harbour, 1925, oil painting]

Les oeuvres de jeunesse de Toyen s’inspirent du purisme, doctrine esthétique élaborée par Amédée Ozenfant et Le Corbusier. Au-delà de la géométrisation des formes, l’espace entier de la toile est structuré par des éléments qui s’imbriquent parfaitement les uns dans les autres. [Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon]

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Marie Čermínová-Toyen Medaillon mit Mädchenportrait

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Toyen (Marie Cerminova)

Le puits dans la tour 1967

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Toyen, A Girl Head behind Spider Web, 1934. 

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BRIEF REFLECTION ON ACCURACY

Fish always accurately know where to move and when, and likewise birds have an accurate built-in time sense and orientation. Humanity, however, lacking such instincts resorts to scientific research. Its nature is illustrated by the following occurrence. A certain soldier had to fire a cannon at six o'clock sharp every evening. Being a soldier he did so. When his accuracy was investigated he explained: I go by the absolutely accurate chronometer in the window of the clockmaker down in the city. Every day at seventeen forty-five I set my watch by it and climb the hill where my cannon stands ready. At seventeen fifty-nine precisely I step up to the cannon and at eighteen hours sharp I fire. And it was clear that this method of firing was absolutely accurate. All that was left was to check that chronometer. So the clockmaker down in the city was questioned about his instrument's accuracy. Oh, said the clockmaker, this is one of the most accurate instruments ever. Just imagine, for many years now a cannon has been fired at six o'clock sharp. And every day I look at this chronometer and always it shows exactly six. Chronometers tick and cannon boom.

-- Miroslav Holub, the Czech poet was born this day, 1923.

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Marie Čermínová / Toyen, Waiting For The Cutthroat To Appear

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Marie Čermínová / Toyen

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TOYEN (Marie CERMINOVA) (1902-1980) - Le devenir de la Liberté.

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Illusion - research 1

23 January 2021

DADAISM

“Dada” is an avant-garde movement started in early 20th century in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1915, then  in 1920 flourished in Paris. Dadaist artist wanted to show their discontent toward violence, war and nationalism by expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. They wanted to shock establishment and share distrust to logic and their love to the absurd.

SURREALISM

Surrealism arose on the Dadaism. It is an artistic trend that begin in France in 1924 and initially appeared in the literature through the philosopher and poet André Breton. By assumption, this movement was to be an expression of rebellion against classicism, realism and what is rational, as well as the destruction of conventions in art. Through their paintings, the artists wanted to express their inner perception of reality in a way that is often grotesque, unreal, as if on the border of fantasy, reality and dream. Surrealism quickly spread around the globe and was represented by: Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, Joan Miró, Toyen (Marie Cerminova), Frieda Kahlo. Surrealists looked their inspirations in philosophical theories by Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung as well as in symbolism of an earlier painters artists like Gustave Moreau, Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya. Surrealists were fascinated by the human psyche and subconscious.

Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist known for his technical skill, precise sketching and the striking and bizarre images in his work. He joined the Surrealist group in 1929 and became one of its leading representatives. A fellow of Man Ray. 

Salvador Dali and Man Ray in 1934, Paris.

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; 1890-1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealists movements. He considered himself as a painter, but he produced the most important works in various media. He was best known for his photography and was also an established fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also known for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in relation to himself.

Hieronimus Bosch (1450 – 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.

Toyen - Marie Čermínová (born in 1902, in Prague – died in 1980, in Paris), was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. She left the family home at sixteen. Toyen joined the Czech avant-garde Devětsil group in 1923 and exhibited with them. The group had strong international connections, especially but not only to French culture.

André Masson - André-Aimé-René Masson (1896 – 1987) was a French artist associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. 

Rene Magritte, René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He created witty and thought-provoking images. He presented ordinary objects in an unusual context. His works are known for questioning the the perception of reality.

Dora Maar, real name - Henriette Theodora Markovitch (1907 – 1997), was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Pablo Picasso partner and his muse, she was depicted on many of his paintings. 

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TOYEN (MARIE ČERMINOVÁ) /

Potato Theatre (Deluge) 1961 Prague Narodni Galerie Veletrzni Palac

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Toyen & Chantal Maillard

“Ya todo es sombra

Hago hatillo de pérdidas”

- Chantal Maillard, de La herida en la lengua.

 - Toyen (Marie Cerminova; Czech, 1902–1980): Lithographs for Tir: The Shooting Gallery 

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Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen (1902-1980), Au carrefour du silence, 1960