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Tag: Surrealism

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

Postcards in Isolation 19: Sylvia Fein, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012

7th August 20208th August 2020  Molly Gilroy

On a trip to Berkeley, California, Molly Gilroy discovered Sylvia Fein’s hypnotic and blazing work, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012, an image, which in postcard form, has given her hope during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, GeneralTagged: art, BAMPFA, Berkley, Covid-19, Leonora Carrington, Lockdown Living, Molly Gilroy, Postcards in Isolation, Remedios Varo, Rochelle Roberts, San Francisco, Surrealism, Surrealists, Sylvia Fein, Women surrealists

Postcards in Isolation 5: Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939

15th May 202016th May 2020  Rachel Ashenden

On removing a postcard of Frida Kahlo from her wall, Rachel Ashenden began to reflect on past loves, the feelings postcards evoke and the liberation one can feel, even in lockdown, towards old relationships.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Dada, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Nickolas Muray, Photography, Postcards in Isolation, Rachel Ashenden, Rochelle Roberts, Surrealism, The Debutante

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

Postcards in Isolation 3: Eileen Agar, Angel of Anarchy, 1936-40

20th April 20202nd May 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In her third piece from a self-conceived series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on Eileen Agar’s Angel of Anarchy, 1936-40, a striking and evocative object that embodies current feelings of sadness, inaccessibility and loneliness.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Angel of Anarchy, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Eileen Agar, Joseph Bard, Lockdown Living, Pallant House, Patricia Allmer, Postcards in Isolation, Surrealism, Surrealists, Tate, Tate Modern

Postcards in Isolation 1: Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait (as weight trainer), 1927

29th March 20202nd May 2020  Rochelle Roberts

During these times of self-isolation and remote learning, visual art can still be a source of inspiration. Here, Rochelle Roberts reflects on Claude Cahun’s notable work, Self-Portrait (as weight trainer).

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Adrian Searle, Barbican Art Gallery, Claude Cahun, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Gillian Wearing, Louise Downie, Marcel Moore, National Portrait Gallery, Pallant House, Postcards in Isolation, Rosalind Krauss, Surrealism, Surrealists

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

Behind the Myth of the Mad Muse: Dora Maar at Tate Modern

19th January 202025th January 2020  Lottie Whalen

Tate Modern’s latest exhibition celebrates the work of Surrealist artist Dora Maar, drawing her out of the shadow of male contemporaries and challenging the myth of the ‘mad muse’.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Barbican Art Gallery, Cubism, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Nusch Eluard, Photography, Photomontage, Picasso, Surrealism, Tate Modern

Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread – a surreal and fantastical story about mother-daughter relationships

20th May 201920th May 2019  Carla Plieth

Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, Gingerbread, surreally blurs fact and fiction in a tale involving three generations of women who love to bake.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Barbara Comyns, Brothers Grimm, Emily Dickinson, Fiction, Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi, magic realism, Novel, 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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