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Discovered the dreamy, disruptive portraits of Nadine Faraj at EDJI Gallery
It has to be Joanna Boyce Wells' 'Study of Fanny Eaton', 1861. Just love the female gaze onto this Girl with a Pearl Earring, Pre-Raphaelite style 🖤 https://t.co/l0KnU6DsYh
For decades, Emmy Bridgwater's art was hidden in an attic. But during her lifetime she was a leading surrealist, admired by André Breton himself, as a new exhibition @MayorGallery proves! https://t.co/ShSUHvKE77
Headed to London, where rediscovered surrealist Emmy Bridgwater's retrospective opens at The Mayor Gallery tonight! It's her first solo show in 32 years and about time, too https://t.co/ShSUHw2Nlf
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for" - Georgia O'Keeffe, #botd 1887
Replacing Velázquez's Venus with a nude male muse in 'Philip Golub Reclining', 1971, Sylvia Sleigh called out the objectification of women in art history. Such a powerful statement still today. I'll be discussing 'muse as message' @Roundtable_92NY tomorrow!
Overlooked Birmingham Surrealist Emmy Bridgwater is having a show at The Mayor Gallery! It's been such an honour to write a catalogue essay, telling the story of this visionary artist and poet who played a pivotal role in Surrealism, in Paris and the UK: https://t.co/ShSUHw2Nlf