ENGENDERING SURREALISM Flashcards
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Cahun, Claude (Lucy Renée Mathilde Scwob). Self Portrait 1928
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- non-binary perspective gives an original take on surrealism
- used elements of mirrors, collages, and doubling in her work to reflect diverging from social norms.
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Carrington, Leonora, Bird Superior Portrait of Max
Ernst,1939
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- Carrington continued to defy the Surrealist habit of casting the female as muse to her male counterpart
- the white stallion-a surrogate for herself – is twice present, both trapped in the ice and encased in the lantern held by Ernst.
- He, a shamanic figure dressed in a shaggy feather robe complete with a merman tail and garish striped stockings, looks despondent in the desolate, glacial landscape.
- The painting conveys a strong sense of the emotional and physical captivity that Carrington felt and from which she was desperate to be freed.
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Carrington, Self Portrait (The White Horse Inn),1936-37
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- Carrington is perched on the edge of a chair in this curious, dreamlike scene, with her hand outstretched toward the prancing hyena and her back to the tailless rocking horse flying behind her.
- She revisited these memories in her adulthood, creating paintings populated with real and imagined creatures.
- The white horse, which Carrington used as her symbolic surrogate, gallops freely into the verdant landscape beyond the curtained window.
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Oppenheim, Meret, Object ( Le Dejeuner en fourrure), 1936
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- fur cup and spoon most famous
- contradictory surrealist object the very essence of uselessness
- to invert a functional object into something unusable and strange, we expect cool and hard objects but the objects are instead soft and furry
- organic, dreamlike, inverted, surrealism, juxtaposition of two separate objects
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Varo, Remedios, Starmaker, 1958
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- after she fled to Mexico; the art community in Mexico was not welcoming to the European artists.
- The small space and caged moon creates a sense of being trapped and isolated,
- A reflection of how Varo felt in Mexico isolated from her homeland.
- The milled star stuff represents hope and the action of feeding it to the moon is an attempt to transform hope into an opportunity.
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Varo, The Minotaur, 1959
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- Transformed traditionally male mythic heroes into female form
- In these mythological transformations she was careful to delineate the female anatomy of her heroines.
- exploring such symbols and transformations
- Absorption with self-analysis is found throughout their work, explored in a series of narrative fantasies,
