#surrealists

[weirdlookindog]

Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Paris, 1952

by Denise Colomb

[lia-serrano]

Snow, 2024

digital collage

©Lía Serrano

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[annemarieyeretzian]

SURREALISM 👁️ love, ur local art mom 🩵

disclaimers and more information under the cut ✂️

hi I’m annemarie and I’m an art historian! not adjuncting for the first time in five years was rly hard for me so I threw some slides together so I could still (sort of) teach the same material as my language of art class but a) I threw these slides together for instagram so space was/is limited and b) language of art is a ten week run through art history so I’m presenting only the most accessible information here – there’s so much more to this art period and to these artists! – please don’t expect it to be comprehensive and please do ask if you have any questions!

oh p.s. my first ever class of art history students came up with the name ‘art mom’ for me at the end of the quarter and yes it does make me cry if I think about it too long thanks so much for asking

[thesobsister]

Gertrude Abercrombie, "Slaughterhouse Ruins at Aledo" (1937) (above), and the artist with the canvas (below)

[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.

[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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[instructionsonback]

Purchase for $900, original drawing by Jaevonn Harris™

[katacala]

Her wet steps showed her ballerina's turnout. James was quite wealthy (and possibly the illegitimate son or grandson of King Edward VII) and he funded ballet productions for his wife.

They both bisexually cheated on each other leading to their divorce, and made public each other's infidelities in the ensuing breakup. Losch had affairs with people like Tom Mitford, Prince Serge Obolensky, and Lotte Lenya. The Lenya relationship occurred during the 1933 Paris first run of the ballet chanté Die sieben Todsünden / The Seven Deadly Sins, while Lenya and Losch played the same woman, Lotte singing and Tilly dancing as Annas I and II respectively.

Losch worked as a movie star and choreographer, developed as a painter, and married (then divorced) again, becoming sometime Countess of Carnarvon. James, a poet, spent a few years hanging out with Salvador Dalí and Magritte, funding some great art before selling the collection he'd been amassing his whole life so that he could have a $5 million+ Surrealist sculpture garden, Las Pozas, created in the Mexican rainforest.

The Footprint Carpet still exists at West Dean College. James also had one done with his dog's footprints.

Surrealist Edward James, was so besotted with his wife, the dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw the trail of wet footprints she left up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray

Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite corpse) Nude

1926-27