Le Bout du monde by Leonor Fini (1948).
Yes, I’ll definitely be going to see this one.
The first major exhibition of women artists and Surrealism to be held in Europe, Angels of Anarchy, opens this autumn at Manchester Art Gallery.
Featuring over 150 artworks by 32 women artists, the exhibition is a celebration of the crucial, but [...]
Painter, illustrator and novelist Leonor Fini has been mentioned here before in a post about women Surrealist artists but her wonderful paintings deserve renewed attention. There’s an official site and galleries here (follow the links at the bottom of the page) and here but her work is so profuse and varied there could easily stand [...]
Previous posts about fantastic, surreal or visionary artists.
• The art of Oleg Denysenko
• The art of François Schuiten
• The eyes of Odilon Redon
• Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists
• Franciszek Starowieyski, 1930–2009
• The art of Boris Indrikov
• The art of Mati Klarwein, 1932–2002
• The art of Pierre Clayette, 1930–2005
• The monstrous tome
• A Midsummer Night’s [...]
Was the Surrealist movement the first art grouping to give female creators more of an equivalent status to their male counterparts? The recent posting about Leonora Carrington had me considering this question again (yes, this is what taxes my brain while it’s awake). The answer isn’t so easy to find since women artists had been [...]
The Guardian profiles the wonderful Leonora Carrington, one of the last of the original Surrealists. There’s little excuse for the Tate’s neglect as recounted below, Marina Warner has championed her work for years and she was the subject of a TV documentary in the BBC’s Omnibus strand in the 1990s. Maybe the Tate curators should [...]
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