#surrealists

[weirdlookindog]

Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Paris, 1952

by Denise Colomb

[lia-serrano]

Snow, 2024

digital collage

©Lía Serrano

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[transistoradio]

Remedios Varo photographed by Kati Horna, 1957. The mask Varo is wearing was made by Leonora Carrington.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Man Ray

Lee Miller

c. 1930

[seventh-victim]

group of surrealists, Paris France 1933 (photo: Anna Riwkin-Brick)

The picture shows: Paul Eluard, Jean Arp, Yves Tanquy, René Crevel, Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Man Ray.

[austinkleon]

Eugène Atget, Eclipse

From the Blanton Museum’s Art at Home newsletter:

French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927) focused his lens on the city and people of Paris for nearly four decades, producing more than 8,500 pictures throughout his career. In his photograph Eclipse, a crowd is gathered in Paris’ Place de la Bastille to observe the 1912 solar eclipse. Rather than recording the astronomical event itself, Atget turned his attention to its spectators. Fun fact: Surrealist artist Man Ray bought Atget’s photograph to illustrate the June 1926 cover of La Révolution Surréaliste—a subversive publication that adopted a pseudo-scientific format to explore the irrational nature of existence

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Dr. Strange Classics #03 Pin-Up "Dr Strange Gets Lost On The Way To The Surrealists Convention" (1984) by P. Craig Russell

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Girls just wanna be the namesake founder of an artistic movement

[shaenongarrity]

I was just in Mexico and saw an exhibit of art by Leonora Carrington, one of my favorite Surrealists. Andrew asked how an English artist ended up in Mexico, and I think you all need to know: the normal way. Her boyfriend Max Ernst had to flee Europe to escape the Gestapo and she had a nervous breakdown over it and was committed to an asylum where she was subjected to electroshock therapy and then her family sent her to another asylum in South Africa but she escaped in Portugal and took sanctuary at the Mexican embassy and fortunately she knew one of the Mexican diplomats because he was also a poet who was pals with Picasso and they entered a marriage of convenience so she'd have diplomatic immunity and went down to Mexico with other intellectuals who were fleeing fascism. Just the normal everyday way most people get to Mexico.

[instructionsonback]

Purchase for $900, original drawing by Jaevonn Harris™

[artisticdivasworld]

Surrealism: What it is and How to Use it in Your Art

We are once again going to explore an art movement, called Surrealism, that has impacted all of the art today that we see. We have visited several others, and you can find those here  and here but today, I want to dive into a topic that fascinates many of us in the art world: surrealism. It’s a movement that challenges our perceptions and encourages us to explore the depths of our imagination.…

[lia-serrano]

Petals, 2024.

digital collage

© Lía Serrano

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[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/surrealist-sabotage-and-the-war-on-work

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement’s ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism’s transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism’s profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism’s creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray

Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite corpse) Nude

1926-27

[freshthoughts2020]

Art by JAEVONN HARRIS at the Lansing Art Gallery 📍