To bring her surrealist works to life, British artist Ithell Colquhoun employed techniques ranging from fumage to decalcomania, entopic graphomania and parsemage. The first uses smoke from a lighted ...
The history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for Ren Magritte. “You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris,”Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his ...
In her first solo San Francisco show since 1984, Marie Wilson's work surprises, delights and is overdue for rediscovery.
From the April, 1977 issue of High Times comes Rex Weiner’s interesting take on a 20th-century avant-garde movement. Dada was a defiant No to every thing but Me. If history may be seen as a metronome ...
Foreword / Kathleen S. Bartels -- Introduction. Exhibiting Surrealism / Dawn Ades -- Automatism -- Revolution by night. Haunting fathers: Giorgio de Chirico's The child's brain and Max Ernst's Pietà ...
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...
Simulation as hysterical muse -- From psychological medicine to surrealism -- surrealism and the Salpêtrière legacy -- Artist-sorcerers : mimicry, magic and hysteria -- A theatre of hysteria : ...
Lee Miller was one of the great photographers of the surrealist movement. While many such photographers embraced heavily manipulated prints and distortions at this time, Miller instead pursued ...
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