#surrealists

[transistoradio]

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

#remedios varo #kati horna #leonora carrington #photography #photograph #portrait #surrealism #surrealists

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray

Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite corpse) Nude

1926-27

#yves tanguy #man ray #max morise #joan miro #surrealism #surrealist #surrealists #exquisite corpse #surrealist artist #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #american art #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr #aesthetic #tumblrposts

[sabinastent]

Happy Birthday, Remedios Varo!

One of my favourite artists, I adore and am forever spellbound by this extraordinary para-surrealist, Art Witch, and cat lover 💫🐈‍⬛

#remedios varo #surrealism #women surrealists #female surrealists #Lara Surrealis t #womens art #remy #remedios #Varo #surrealists #cats #cat lover #magic #magical #spellbound #witch #witchy #sorceress #sorcery #mystic #Mexico #Spanish

[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

#eclipse #eugene atget #man ray #la revolution surrealiste #surrealists #photography

[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

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Dr Strange Classics #Doctor Strange #P Craig Russell #Pin-Up #Fantasy #Fantasy Comics #Surrealists #Vintage #Art #Marvel #Original Art #1984 #1980s #80s

[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.

#art #surrealists #leonora carrington #very normal

[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.

#surrealism #art movement #20th century art #surrealists #anti-work

[instructionsonback]

Purchase for $900, original drawing by Jaevonn Harris™

#popsurrealists #surrealart #popsurreal #surreal #lowbrowart #popsurrealist #weirdart #darksurrealism #lowbrow #darkart #lowbrowpopsurrealists #surrealartwork #popsurrealism #surrealistart #lowbrowartist #lowbrowartists #surrealists #darkartwork #surrealist #surrealism #lowbrowartwork #arte #art #artist #creepyart #bizarreart #strangeart #oddart #pintura #surrealpainting

[fawnaura]

The surrealists are the only ones who believed we could live by superimpositions, express it, layer upon layer, past and present, dream and actuality, because they believe we are not one dimensional, we do not exist or experience on one level alone, and that the only way to transcend the contradictions of life is to allow them to exist in such a multilateral state.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2. 1934-1939

#quote #anaïs nin #the diary of anaïs nin #the diary of anaïs nin vol. 2 #surrealist #surrealism #surrealists #life #live #past #present #dream #reality #human #contradiction #self #selves

[artslicepod]

A clip from our latest episode on the many phases of Dorothea Tanning’s work

#dorothea tanning #surrealists #maria martins #art history nerd #art slice #artists #soft sculpture

[sodelafo]

Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse, or Cadavre Exquis, to give it its original title, started out as a surrealist writing game in 1920s Paris. The name comes from a line in one of the original games: “The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.” Penned by Andre Breton. It’s quite simple really, you just write a sentence and then fold it over (leaving part of the sentence uncovered) and pass it on. The next…

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#andre breton #exquisite corpse #henry miller #nusch eluard #paris #paul eluard #surrealism #surrealists #Writing #yves tanguy

[the-cricket-chirps]

Man Ray

PI. for Electro-Magic

1969

#man ray #surrealist #surrealism #surrealist photography #surreal aesthetic #surrealists #american photographer #american artist #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #american art #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #aesthetic #artists on tumblr #tumblrposts #surreal

[sabinastent]

Salvador and Gala Dalí signing books at Manhattan's Doubleday Bookstore, 1954.

Photo by Philippe Halsman.

#salvador dali #dali #surrealism #surrealists #surrealist #artists #artist #gala dali #christmas #book signing #books #artists books #manhattan #double day bookstore #bookstore #bookshop #santa #santa outfit #philippe halsman #Halsman #photographer #phorography #photographers

[yuumie-tries]

About the artist #1: Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) 

An Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the Surrealists. After 1919, he became a critic of modern art, studied traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.

Scuola Metafisica is otherwise known as Metaphysical painting, which is characterised by their 

Dream-like landscapes 

Mysterious and sometimes threatening atmosphere

Utilisation of representational, yet incongruous imagery that often juxtapose against each other 

“The artists thus created a visionary world of the mind, beyond physical reality” ~ Tate

Further resources to discover more about the artist: 

A Piazza in the Sun: The Paintings of Giorgio de Chirico (video, 12min)

Giorgio de Chirico, Pictor Optimus (video, 2hrs)

Giorgio De Chirico Famous Artworks (read, 4min)

#art #artist #artist biography #artist blog #study blog #art student #visual arts #painting #metaphysical #giorgio de chirico #surrealism #surrealists #research #cool art #:D

[saprophilous]

Becoming the cosmic dragon (commission for ardchair on twitter, thank you!) happy lunar new year!

#my art #saprophilous #saproartist #lunar new year #art #artists on tumblr #fantasy illustration #surrealist art #illustrators on tumblr #art commissions #commsions #cosmic dragon

[abwwia]

Marion Adnams

#PalianSHOW presents: ARTist of the DAY Marion Adnams #MarionAdnams #surrealism #WomenSurrealists #womensart #artbywomen #surrealists #paintings #herstory #artherstory #5womenartists

Marion Elizabeth Adnams  (3 December 1898 – 24 October 1995) was an English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman. She is notable for her surrealist paintings, in which apparently unconnected objects appear together in unfamiliar, often outdoor, environments. Some of her paintings depict landscapes and landmarks close to, or within, her native town of Derby.  via Wikipedia Adnam’s work can be…

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#artbywomen #Marion Adnams #Marion Elizabeth Adnams #PalianSHOW #Paulina Palian #Surrealists #Women Surrealists #womensart