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"In these drawings, my hands are dreaming." noted Man Ray when he described his pen and ink drawings. Intrigued by his friend's haunting compositions, Paul Eluard wrote a poem to accompany each drawing. The result was the book Les Mains Libres (Free Hands) published in 1937.
Time crafts a tightly coiled shadow
Where a black path has swallowed the sea whole
But I care even less of this
as the soul collapses
in fractured seconds
Soul without a care
consummated by its blue violet shadow
Myself, all knowing
prefer even my little soul spent in surfacing
San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo
Her works fuse manual and mechanical methods, turning one thing into another with breathtaking results that harken back to Dada and Surrealism.
Three Mile Island #2, from the series One O’Clock Jump (Mixed Media)
Yup’ik complex masks, from Goodnews Bay, Alaska, late 19th to early 20th century.
One of their most popular forms of the Alaska Native art are masks. Yup'ik masks are expressive shamanic ritual masks.
Yup'ik masks are often compared to the European surrealist tradition
Esteemed Belgium painter Suzanne Van Damme's work scanned 6 decades and several continents, as a contemporary of the most innovative artists of the 20th century in Brussels. Paris, Florence and the United States.
LE MASQUE DU REFUS, 1952
Belgium painter Suzanne Van Damme, early disciple of James Ensor and a
contemporary of the Paris Surrealist Poets and Painters of the 30s & 40s.
Her compositions were a mixture of literary and pictorial items, a private alphabet full of signs and symbols.
LES MOUETTES, 1945
J.J. Grandville ~ Un Autre Monde: transformations, visions, incarnations
(Full book, 1844)
Grandville was a caricaturist later recognized as a precursor of Surrealism.
Un Autre Monde describes a parallel world created by three sleazy demiurges.
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Marian Blue, the Color of Angels, Virgins, and Other Untouchable Things
by Katy Kelleher
Blue is a color with long-standing mystical associations. Blue is not what you call an earth color, blue is elusive, and that is what makes it valuable.
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