Leonor Fini, Forêt, c. 1960
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Remedios Varo, Spiral Transit, c. n/d
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And the Butterflies Began to Sing, 1929, Max Ernst
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Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924, Max Ernst
”Why should a nightingale frighten anyone? And what kind of world could contain, as part of casual narrative, the idea of a ‘menacing’ nightingale? What disturbs the viewer, knowing the title - Ernst’s long, mystifying titles were an integral part of his work - is the utter disproportion between cause, the bird’s song, and effect, the terror it inspires. One cannot know what is happening in this little world within the frame - nor, the collage implies, in the big one that includes the picture.”
- The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes
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”That there was a Surrealist world ruled by the irrational, the magical, and the instinctive, was never doubted by the Surrealists themselves; in fact, they drew a map of it. The countries are redrawn to the scale of Surrealist interest. Thus England does not exist, but Ireland, which they saw as a place of myth, Celtic twilight, and heroic revolution, is huge. The United States has been swallowed by Mexico and Labrador. Australia just gets in, but New Guinea is almost the size of China, and Easter Island - whose stone heads were the supreme mystery of Pacific archaeology - is again huge. Africa has shrunk, probably because the Cubists had ‘discovered’ African art…Almost all of Europe has gone except for Paris. Russia is vast. Spain, on the other hand, does not exist - a curious omission, since two of the lynchpins of Surrealist painting (Dali and Miro) and one of its presiding fathers (Picasso) came from there.”
- The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes
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"I envied the people around me, hermetically closed in their mysteries and isolated from the tyranny of the objects. They were prisoners under their overcoats, but nothing coming from outside could harm them, […] nothing could infiltrate their magnificent prisons, while between me and the outer world there was no boundary, I was invaded by everything surrounding me, as if my whole skin were pierced. The attention […] with which I was looking around me, was not a simple act of will. The world was prolonging in me, naturally, all its tentacles, and all the long arms of the hydra were crossing my entrails. I was facing with despair the conviction that I was living in the world I was seeing. And I had no weapon to fight against this certitude."
Max Blecher, Adventures in Immediate Unreality (1936)
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”The strongest illusion of a parallel world in Ernst’s work came from the collage-novels he began to create around 1930…He used Victorian steel engravings, which he cut and reassembled with fanatical precision…sinister, disturbing and marvellous in their unrelenting power of suggestion; the peculiarity of Ernst’s world never lets up or lapses into cliche…His collage-novels were, like pornography, a means of revenge on childhood repression. Their raw material, the late Victorian world of padded bourgeois interiors, heavy fringes, and dark massive furniture, hourglass girls, impassive technicians, and fiercely authoritarian men in boilerplate suits, looks like another civilisation to us. But it was the world in which Max Ernst grew up, and to subvert it was, for him, akin to an act of terrorism - the irrational attacking the domain of ordered structures.”
- The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes
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Lydia and mannequins - Man Ray
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