#Surrealisme

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Gala and Dalí in the ticket booth of the pavilion “Dream of Venus” by Dalí for the New York World Fair (1939)

Facade of the pavilion “Dream of Venus” conceived by Salvador Dalí for the New York World Fair (1939). Ph. Julien Levy (AIC)

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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. Between the painter's initial ideas and the [...]

[portalurania]

Leonor Fini, The Guardian of Phoenix - A Guardiã de Felix

Juan Miró, Birds and Insects - Passaros e Insetos

Remedios Varo, Night Hunt - Caça Nortuna

Leonora Carrington, Bird Bath - Banho do pássaro

Salvador Dali, Bird - Pássaro

René Magritte, Le Retour - O Retorno

Max Ernst, Barbarians - Bárbaros

[remediosvarou]

Depois de se tornar um sucesso incontestável, Remedios Varo começou a receber encomendas. Esse quadro é uma delas. Acredite ou não, o retratado é na verdade a figura à direita, a que está dando corda no coração do personagem central. Médico e pesquisador, o doutor Ignacio Chavez era um humanista cujo pensamento tinha muito a ver com o de Remedios Varo. Para saber sobre ele e sobre as referencias místicas e zodiacais do quadro é só clicar aqui.

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Portrait of doctor Ignacio Chávez, 1957 🗝 This one of the few comissions made by Varo. It has recently been part of an auction held by Christie's. The painting was sold for almost 4 million pounds!

[gregdotorg]

I wanted to reblog this Man Ray photo of Alberto Giacometti's 1934 sculpture Cube, from the Pompidou, months ago when it came around. But then I got fixated on reading Georges Didi-Huberman's 250pg psychophilosophical treatise on it first. You know, to add value.

Anyway, four months later, this was a head, but also abstract, and Giacometti was exploring this shape, inspired by Dürer, when his (Alberto, not Albrecht) father died. This and a tombstone were like some of the few works he made while mourning.

[gertrudeabercrombie]

dois gatos . 1956 .  two cats

[adslibitum]

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[satvrnaesthetics]

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[shintobufo]

The mediumistic possession relationship naturally brings us to shamanism, that vision of a cosmic balance in which man is one with the cosmos, defined by Roger Caillois in Le mythe et L'Homme as a manifestation of the "power of the individual struggling against the natural orders of reality," an approach that leads to magic, in other words something coming from the "primitive need of the ego to disengage from an ungraspable reality and acquire power with the aid of magic." This phenomenon is also considered among other forms of "primitive" thought in its relationship with surrealism and dream by Jules Monnerot in Modern poetry and the sacred, which undoubtedly explains why Breton valued Monnerot's book so highly (if we can believe the short note added by Gerard Legrand in the Dictionaries général du surréalisme et de environs).

Patrick Lepetit, The Esoteric secrets of surrealism: Surrealism and the labyrinth of the mind, p.112.

[twafordizzy]

Benjamin Péret Dicht in 't Frans

bron beeld: reze.fr De gepijnigde meisjes Dicht bij een huis van zon en witte haren / geeft een bos latente tederheden bloot / en een geest vol scepsis Waar is de reiziger vraagt zij De woudreiziger vraagt zich af wat de morgen zal brengen / Hij is ziek en naakt / Hij vraagt flikjes en men brengt hem dollegras / Hij is beroemd als de machine / Hij vraagt zijn hond / en ‘t is een moordenaar die ‘n…

[dosartistas]

(vía El Hurgador [Arte en la Red]: Mike Davis [Pintura / Painting])

"La tentación de San Antonio / Temptation of St. Anthony"Acrílico sobre panel / acrylic on panel, 28" x 28", 2003.

[alanparker1]

Marc Chagall, born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov, is a painter and engraver born on July 7, 1887 in Liozna in the voblast of Vitebsk in Belarus, naturalized French in 1937 and died on March 28, 1985 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence where he is buried . 🖌️🎨

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Jewelry by Salvador Dalí modeled by Madelle Hegeler, June 1959, by an anonymous American (?) photographer | src Fostinum view on wordPress

[portalurania]

Leonora Carrington - O ordálio de Owain, 1959

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Leonora Carrington - The ordeal of Owain, 1959

[remediosvarou]

Folhas mortas, 1956

Walter Gruen fala sobre seu casamento com Remédios Varo, sua fuga do Nazismo e a crença da artista no destino e no além. Clique aqui para ler.

Dead Leaves, 1956

In Voices of Mexico, you can read Walter Gruen talking about his marriage to Remedios Varo, his escape from the nazis and Varo's belief in faith. Click here to read.

[gregdotorg]

First Marcel Duchamp hung works on revolving doors in the Surrealism exhibition he designed in 1938. Then Sturtevant hung Duchamp works she made on Duchamp Revolving Door in her exhibition at the Everson Museum in 1973.

And there are more Duchamp Doors besides that.

top image via Elena Filipovic's dissertation; bottom image via Christopher Murtha's masters thesis

[francoise-larouge]

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