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Tag: Dorothea Tanning

Postcards in Isolation 28: Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951

15th October 202015th October 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In the final postcard of her series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on the last few months since the first lockdown, and finds comfort and hope in the artwork of Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: BHM, BHM 2020, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, Lockdown Living, Love and Hip Hop, Maximillian William Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Somaya Critchlow, Underneath a Bebop Moon

Postcards in Isolation 11: Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909 and Dorothea Tanning’s Self Portrait, 1944

1st July 20201st July 2020  Sian Norris

Sian Norris reflects on the female gaze as captured in Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909, and when looking at Dorothea Tanning’s Self-Portrait, 1944, she considers the lack of freedom we have during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Sian Norris, Tate Modern, the Sublime, Zinaida Serebriakova

Postcards in Isolation 4: Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942

2nd May 20202nd May 2020  Rochelle Roberts

For the fourth piece in her continued series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on Dorothea Tanning’s monumental and transformative self-portrait, Birthday, 1942, and considers the prospect of the end to coronavirus.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: 31 Women, Alyce Mahon, Ann Coxon, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, Lilias Wigan, Lund Humphries, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, Postcards in Isolation, Surrealism, Surrealists, Tate Modern, Victoria Carruthers

British Surrealism at Dulwich Picture Gallery

15th March 202016th March 2020  Jennifer Brough

After viewing Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest exhibition, British Surrealism, Jennifer Brough reflects on one of the west’s most disruptive art movements, its elitism, and how women surrealists are gradually being given the space they deserve.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: André Breton, British Surrealism, Dora Maar, Dorothea Tanning, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Grace Palithorpe, Ithell Colquhon, Leonora Carrington, Marion Adnams, Night / Shift, Salvador Dali, Surrealism

Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern

3rd April 20193rd April 2019  Gabriela Frost

Tate Modern opens a door into the deliciously dark, intimate and, at times, comical world of Dorothea Tanning, a surrealist for our times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Boccioni, De Chirico, Dorothea Tanning, gothic, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, painting, Peggy Guggenheim, sculpture, Soft Sculpture, Surrealism, Tate Modern, Whitney Chadwick
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