Dorothea Margaret Tanning

                                                   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.

Birthday, 1942,  a self portrait where Tanning's bare-breasted figure is set amidst infinitely receding doors and is juxtaposed by a hippogriff.

                                                               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.

                                                                 Tragic Table, 1973

                                                                   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.

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