Meeting Benches World art in all forms
MAX ERNST (1891/1976), GERMAN PAINTER – The Surrealist of the irrational depths
THE UNPREDICTABLE MYSTERIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS – Max Ernst, the creative able to give voice and face to the nuances of the invisible psychic
MAX ERNST 1/6 – Maximilien was born in Germany in an April day. He studied philosophy, history of art and psychiatry, but it is starting to draw, he discovered his creative vocation. Already at age 22 he exhibited his first paintings in Berlin, knowing Apollinaire and Delaunay. MAX ERNST 2/6 – A strong advocate of the artistic avant-garde, its onset …
Read More »UNREAL REALISM – When the supernatural comes true: with Leonor Fini, at the limits of the artistic creative world
LEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE / ITALIAN PAINTER – An eccentric woman, star of European Surrealism
LEONOR FINI 1/6 – Born woman, in Argentina, in a summer day. Growing increasingly impatient with the conventions and fascinated by the new, devoting her life to the theater, travel and painting, but also loving – always – so desecrating. Trivially die in Paris (because of flu complications), in the heart of winter. LEONOR FINI 2/6 – Growing dispute between …
Read More »LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917/2011), ENGLISH PAINTER – Dreamlike, highly detailed compositions of fantastical creatures in otherworldly
ONE WOMAN, A POET WALKING AND PAINTS – Leonora Carrington, the woman able to change into fish and birds, by painting and writing
LEONORA CARRINGTON 1/5 – She was born in England, but lived her youth in France (with a tormented love story and a nervous breakdown), then spent nearly seventy years of her life in Mexico, where she met (becoming painter and writer), the surreal world of Horna, Gerszo and Peret, along with close friend of Remedios Varo and Bridget Bate Tichenor. …
Read More »JOSE DE LA BARRA, PERUVIAN PAINTER – The Surrealist that plays and exaggerates reality
THE SURREALISTIC WORLD OF JOSE
JOSE DE LA BARRA 1/4 – He was born in a August day in Peru. He attended the Fine Arts Autonomous Superior School in Lima, Peru, where he studied Painting, Ilustration, and Murals. He has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing. JOSE DE …
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888/1978), ITALIAN PAINTER – Enigmatic architecture, immersed in the pictorial transcendence
