Link pages by artist includes links to pictures, bios, articles, etc.
Leonora Carrington: links Remedios Varo: links Ana Mendieta: links and bibliography Leonora Carrington: bibliography Remedios Varo: bibliography Francesca Woodman: links and bibliography Leonor Fini: links, aticles and books Other Surrealist artists and surrealist links
When
I discovered Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo a few years back, I was amazed
by their work. While linked with the surrealists, their work encompass a spiritual
dimension beyond the subconscious/unconscious/dream,infusing mundane reality with
magic. Often social satire of modern foibles leak through. Their humor bubbles
up in many works. Their journey from the Old World to the New, from England/Spain/France
to Mexico/US introduced them to a wide repertoire of legends, symbols, icons that
they've woven into a new tapestry. These two are among the few artists whose work
truly crosses cultural boundaries.
A new exhibition of mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the poem paintings of Joan Miró (1893-1983) highlights the visual dialogue between two of the most colorful personalities and unusual artistic innovators of the 20th century.
In 1946, Walt Disney commission from Dali an animated 6-minute short based on the song Destino, by Mexican artist Armando Domínguez. The film was to combine ballet and animation, and was meant to form part of a feature length film of short stories. But in the end, the project failed. The hundred scenes, drawings and paintings made personally by Dalí have remained hidden over more than half a century. Now, Roy Disney, grandson of Walt Disney, and producer Baker Bloodworth (Dinosaur) have produced the short film following the artists' instructions and preparatory sketches. the film has received an Oscar nomination in the short animated film category. Destino, which has not yet been shown in any Spanish city, will have its Spanish premier at CaixaForum with the opening of Dalí. Mass culture. The town had a lot of other Dali events that month as well.
Scandinavian Surrealism blended with Abstract art, Expressionism and other Avant-garde trends of the time, producing a condensed example of modern art, which lived and gave impulses to the later styles by touching several aesthetic programs at the same time. A well prepared catalogue accompanies the show. It includes a comparative table of the Surrealist art events in Europe, whole of Scandinavia and specifically Norway.
Self portraits include Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Miro and others.
This summer, Falmouth Art Gallery recreates this unique event in The Surrealists on Holiday, a major new exhibition that opens on 19 June. It promises a fresh insight into the social and artistic world of Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, and features a collection of their previously unpublished photographs of some of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington and Paul Eluard. Alongside will be works by each of these artists. ... It was while researching a biography of his mother Lee Miller that Antony Penrose discovered the extraordinary photographs taken by her and Roland on that holiday to Cornwall. Carrington's father had instigated a warrant for Man Ray's arrest so the group escaped to Penrose's brother's house in Cornwall.
The exhibition features prints made with traditional and innovative printing process created at Graphicstudio by world-renowned artists such as Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Rosenquist, and Leonora Carrington.
Moderna Museet is showing Meret Oppenheim with a selection of works - drawings, objects and paintings - from public and private collections in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and France. This is a smaller retrospective focusing on a few facets of a complex and central artist with an intricate relationship to modernism that goes far beyond the museum's most famous piece, Ma Gouvernante.
A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr., ...wanted to introduce his audience to modern ideas in a variety of ways. He organized lectures by contemporary artists, as well as film screenings of avantgarde films, showing the unsettling Salvador Dalí/Luis Buñuel surrealist film Un Chien Andalou in 1934 as part of a Dalí evening that included the Spanish painter's lecture on surrealism. .. During Austin's tenure, the Wadsworth held the first exhibition of surrealism in America (1931), the first major Picasso retrospective in America (1934), and one of the first exhibitions on pure abstraction (1935). It exhibited the young American modernists in the 1930s ...Featuring nearly sixty paintings, collages, and sculptures by the most significant avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art represents an outstanding array of major artistic movements in the twentieth century.
San Francisco, CA. Featured on the third floor: Leonor Fini's artwork and her contemporaries: Stella Snead, Anne Bachelier, Leonora Carrington Oil paintings, water colors, lithographs, mixed media and pen and ink. Fini's work is an intriguing kaleidescope of feminine sensuality, erotic awareness, whimsy and humor. In many of her paintings her use of a pastel palette is deceptive. Her work is often layered with sexual nuance or social commentary contradicting an almost dreamy sweetness. While her work is known in Europe, it is rare to find it in the U.S.
New York. The purpose of Surrealism, according to its founder and chief spokesman, Andre Breton, was, “to resolve the previously contradictory condition of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” In New York, European and American artists met at the studio of Stanley William Hayter, a British printmaker who is today considered one of the most influential modern printmakers. Among other Surrealist emigrants represented in the exhibition are Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteauand Max Ernst. Seven lithographs and one etching by Dorothea Tanning acquaint viewers with this under-recognized American member of the Surrealist movement.
A historical examination of surrealism's engagement with the subject of desire, this exhibition will include many of the iconic works associated with surrealism and will include
works by less well known artists, including Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Maria, Jindrich Styrsky, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, and RemediosVaro. Art, film, photographs, and some rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists in their celebration of love and desire, as well as a selection of manuscripts, letters and documentary photographs that show something of the personal contexts of the group's exploration of desire. This exhibition traveled from the Tate Modern Museum, London (September 20 - December 16, 2001).
San Francisco, CA. Dada and Surrealist Art from The Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection in the Israel Museum. Approximately 200 provocative works document the raucous, convention-challenging, highly creative histories of two closely related movements in early 20th-century art: Dada and Surrealism.
First major exhibition in France of Surrealist art in three decades. Takes up a whole floor and includes major icons like the lobster phone.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Works on paper by Man Ray including the 1926 Revolving Doors portfolio are the subject of this exhibition which looks at the important contribution made by Man Ray to Surrealism and Abstraction. The Revolving Doors portfolio represents an important body of work, which reflects Man Ray's interest in color and abstraction. Also included in this exhibition will be the photogravure series L'Electricité along with other works by Man Ray.
Miami, Florida. This exhibition will focus on Chilean-born artist Roberto Sebastian Matta’s time in the United States from 1939–1948. During this decade, Matta developed some of the most unique and powerful works of his career, fusing surrealist practices of automatism with a wide-ranging approach to painting in which abstraction and figuration increasingly intertwined. He also helped forge important links between the European Surrealists in exile in the United States and a generation of younger American artists who would become known as abstract expressionists, with lasting consequences for the development of their work.
Madrid, Spain. Gradiva, the subject of Wilhelm Jensen's novel of the same name fascinated Freud, Dalí, and the surrealists. This exhibition traces Dalí's extensive treatment of the theme, a kind of modern psychoanalytic parable. Organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Curated by William Jeffett. .
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Chicago, Illinois. This exhibition will focus on Chilean-born artist Roberto Sebastian Matta’s time in the United States from 1939–1948. During this decade, Matta developed some of the most unique and powerful works of his career, fusing surrealist practices of automatism with a wide-ranging approach to painting in which abstraction and figuration increasingly intertwined. He also helped forge important links between the European Surrealists in exile in the United States and a generation of younger American artists who would become known as abstract expressionists, with lasting consequences for the development of their work.. It will open at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and travel to the Miami Art Museum prior to its presentation in Chicago.
St. Petersburg, FL. Gradiva, the subject of Wilhelm Jensen's novel of the same name fascinated Freud, Dalí, and the surrealists. This exhibition traces Dalí's extensive treatment of the theme, a kind of modern psychoanalytic parable. Organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Curated by William Jeffett. . Located next to the University of South Florida Bayboro Campus at 1000 Third Street South, houses a comprehensive collection of the Spanish artist's works, Dating from 1914-80, Dali's paintings range from small impressionistic works to gigantic surrealistic montages. Sculptures and other objects illustrate Dali's artistic diversity.
News:May 22, 2001 Judge rules niece and not Walter Gruehn is sole inheritor of Varo's estate (paintings.)
Among other artists includes Claude Cahun, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman.
A historical examination of surrealism's engagement with the subject of desire, this exhibition will include many of the iconic works associated with surrealism and will include
works by less well known artists, including Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Maria, Jindrich Styrsky, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, and RemediosVaro. Art, film, photographs, and some rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists in their celebration of love and desire, as well as a selection of manuscripts, letters and documentary photographs that show something of the personal contexts of the group's exploration of desire. This exhibition will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 6, 2002-May 12, 2002).
. Los Angeles. This exhibition will focus on Chilean-born artist Roberto Sebastian Matta’s time in the United States from 1939–1948. During this decade, Matta developed some of the most unique and powerful works of his career, fusing surrealist practices of automatism with a wide-ranging approach to painting in which abstraction and figuration increasingly intertwined. He also helped forge important links between the European Surrealists in exile in the United States and a generation of younger American artists who would become known as abstract expressionists, with lasting consequences for the development of their work.
The exhibition explores the artistic links between Paris and Barcelona from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Two symbolic dates have been chosen to limit its scope: 1888, the year of the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona, which marked the end of the modernisation of the city and coincided with the flowering of Catalan modernism and nationalism; and 1937, the year of the International Exhibition in Paris, where the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, built by Josep Luis Sert, housed Picasso's Guernica.
Braumer was an active member of the first wave of Romanian avant-garde artists who predated western European Surrealism by nearly twenty years. Since its opening in 1987, The Menil Collection has presented several exhibitions of Braumer's contemporaries, including Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp. This exhibition provides a unique opprtunity to contrast this artist with his fellow surrealists. Housed at another location in Houston, the Menil Collection also has an ongoing exhibition of works by René Magritte, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Man Ray.
München, Germany. The exhibition Dora Maar & Picasso offers a retrospective view of the work of Dora Maar. Although she was well known as a friend, model and "muse" of Picasso, it is often forgotten that Dora Maar herself was a successful artist. Long before her yearlong liaison with Picasso, she had produced an outstanding and comprehensive collection of photography and was an important artist. Nevertheless, the relationship with Picasso, the character and disposition of the person Dora Maar and her personality as a woman, both in publications about Picasso and in the few that are dedicated to her, assume an unusually great significance in art-history literature. Naturally, the person and the artist Dora Maar are inextricably interlinked.
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Articles on the First U.S. Retrospective Remedios Varo Tour Feb 10- May 29, 2000: Museum of Women in Washingon. DC., Catalogue with a bilingual essay by guest curator Luis-Martí Lozano, chronology, biography, bibliography, and exhibition checklist.June 16-August 20: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago CNN article on the exhibit | Books of InterestRemedios Varo : Unexpected Journey. Published February 2000. It's a great biography by Janet Kaplan. I read it in hardback originally. Her paintings were fed by her life, beliefs, humor and relationships. Kaplan does an excellent job exploring how these elements of Varo's life danced together and spilled into the frame.
Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker, Ana Mendieta. Hardcover (May 1999) Duke University Press. Also in paperback, in print. Ana Mendieta: A Book of Works by Bonnie Clearwater (Editor). |
Also I've redone the bibliography of articles and books on Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Let me know if you know of more. I've added a bibliography on Ana Mendieta. Through Amazon, I've also created an online bookstore for Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, other surrealists, photography and travel.
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The Eclectic Bookstore: Surrealists, Photography, France, Japan, Cookbooks, Digital Art
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