Under the jade vine I found Magritte: A poem
Hannah Cooper/Senior Staff
when we begin the arms of the sun sink/ in the commercial space curated into me/ lightly burning your hands
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Two Peas in a Podcast Episode #6: Surreal Friends™
This week, Maisy and Areyon celebrate surrealism, criticize Rembrandt and charge full force at what it means to appreciate visual art! All of those C verbs make different sounds, welcome back to the pod!
An artist 100 years in the making: Sylvia Fein
Displaying the terror of World War II, imaginary worlds and intimate depictions of herself, Fein’s work is a testament to the longevity of life.
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My mother as a Salvador Dalí
Kind of chaos
My mother taught me how to love art. She taught me to look for detail, to hold space for emotional impact, to decide for myself what feels beautiful.
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The ‘Strange’, the funny, the grotesque – BAMPFA unveils surrealist exhibition
“Strange” is an exhibition that combines a diverse range of artistic practices and mediums as a means to evoke the full emotional range of the surrealist movement.
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Surrealism, Indian art feature in BAMPFA summer exhibits
Though visually forceful at first, approaching the clowns up close reveals their humanity and shakes this off-kilter notion. It is replaced by a slight, sparkling melancholy.
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New surrealism exhibit in SF intrigues
When Lee Miller broke up with Man Ray in 1932, he cut a picture of her eye out, stuck it on a metronome and wrote: “With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.” He called the piece, “Object to Be Destroyed.” Ray, the famed surrealist
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