Sunday Afternoon' 1953
Σαν σήμερα 25 Αυγούστου 1910 γεννήθηκε η Αμερικανίδα ζωγράφος, χαράκτρια, γλύπτρια, συγγραφέας και ποιήτρια Dorothea Margaret Tanning
Το πρώιμο έργο της ήταν επηρεασμένο από τον Σουρεαλισμό. Ήταν παντρεμένη με τον καλλιτέχνη Max Ernst.
(25 Αυγ του 1910 - στις 31 Ιανουαρίου, 2012)
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, painter, sculptor and poet died at the age of 101 last week. She is most known for her surrealist paintings, and most notably
'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik', 1943. The immense, writhing sunflower seems as animated as the girl whose hair is on end standing in the apparently endless corridor.
Beyond the Esplanade, 1940
Portrait of Muriel Levy
The Truth about Little Girls and Comets
Family Portrait, 1954
By the late 1960s she was creating surreal cloth figures made with a sewing machine. These figures have been echoed recently by Sarah Lucas.
Rainy Day Canape, 1970
Evening
He told us, with the years you will come
To love the world,
And we sat there with our souls in our laps
And comforted them.
