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Photography: Kalliope Amorphous

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Luna Park at Coney Island, New York, 1926 (Daily News Archive)

#Photography #ConeyIsland #NYC

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Surrealist and Situationist poet Marcel Mariën, one of the most intriguing, prolific and representative figures of the Belgian Surrealist movement, Mariën, a distinguished writer and theorist, created works of assemblage, collage, photography and painting.

Sans titre

#Surrealism #MarcelMarien

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Surrealist and Situationist poet Marcel Mariën, one of the most intriguing, prolific and representative figures of the Belgian Surrealist movement, Mariën, a distinguished writer and theorist, created works of assemblage, collage, photography and painting.

Sans titre, 1940

#Surrealism #MarcelMarien

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Marcel Mariën, collage for André Breton’s Nadja, 1938

#Surrealism #AndreBreton #Collage

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Union Libre, a poem by Andre Breton embossed in Braille on a photograph.

"My wife whose hair is a brush fire

Whose thoughts are summer lightning

Whose waist is an hourglass

Whose mouth is a bright cockade with the fragrance of a star of the first magnitude"

#Surrealism #AndreBreton

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Andre Breton ~ The Egg in the Church, 1932 (collage)

#Surrealism #collage #AndreBreton

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Pablo Siquier (Argentinian, 1961), Untitled (9706), 1997. Acrylic on canvas, 74 ¼ x 94 in.

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Ascension by Christopher Rubey 

Source

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Fabrizio Clerici (1913-1993) — Homage to Böcklin  [oil and paper laid on board, 1968]

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Lorenzo Mattotti, La Divina Commedia, L’Inferno, 1999

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Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)

Théâtre d'ombres (Theatre of Shadows) https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-christian-boltanski-theatre-dombres-5596818/?

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Robert Heinecken Then People Forget You 1965 Gelatin silver print 10 3/8 x 12 15/16″ (26.3 x 32.8cm) The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Boardroom, Inc.

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René Magritte ~ The Search for the Absolute, 1960

#Magritte #Surrealism #Painting

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Augusto Giacometti ~ L'expulsion du paradis

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Kolam design from south India

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Salvador Dali, Dream of Venus Pavilion, 1939

In June 1939 Salvador Dalí designed a pavilion for the New York World’s Fair built by the architect Ian Woodner. The building was named Dream of Venus.

The pavilion featured a spectacular facade full of protuberances, vaguely reminiscent of the Pedrera building by Antoni Gaudí. The main door was flanked by two pillars representing two female legs wearing stockings and high-heeled shoes. Through the openings of  the irregular façade, visitors could see reproductions of the Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci and The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The outer part of the building also had crutches, cacti, hedgehogs, etc. Inside, the pavilion offered visitors an aquatic dance show in two large swimming pools, with sirens and other items also designed by Dalí, some of them taking their inspiration from the work of Bracelli. Between the painter’s initial ideas and the final result of the project there arose major modifications, which led Dalí to complain about the Fair’s requirements  in a pamphlet entitled Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness.

side note: My grandfather also designed buildings for the 39 world’s fair