First Papers of Surrealism
1942, organized by Andre Breton, installed by Marcel Duchamp, and held in the French Council of Relief
Societies in NYC
Dream of Venus, Dali's surreal funhouse/pavilion at the 1939 New York World's
Fair
1939
SURREALIST EXHIBITIONS
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the Cage
1930-1wood construction
Palace at 4 A.M.
1932-33h.64cm
glass, wood, wire, and string
Giacometti: Existential Surrealist
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Surrealism comes to America
Bust of Diego, 1954Painted Bronze 15 x 13 x 8 in
Portrait of a Woman, 1965, Oil on canvas 33 x 25 in.
Tall Figure, 1949painted bronze
65 3/8x6 1/2x13 1/2"
Man Pointing, 1947bronze
h.82 1/2, b.12x13"
Hands Holding the Void (The
Invisible Object)
1934; bronze, 1935
60 x 12 x 11"
Woman with Throat Cut1932, bronze, h. 86cm.
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the importance of unexpected juxtapositions
"denial" of the artist-creator
connection from the collective unconscious to the real world
automatism and biomorphism and the freedom to develop new techniques
affects all media
Lee Krasner: Three in Two
1956oil on cotton
duckcloth78x58 in.
Moon Woman Cuts the Circle
Jackson Pollock, 1943
oil on canvas42 x 40 in
Rothko: Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 1944
oil/canvas, 6' 3 3/8" x 7' 3/4"
Newman: Song of Orpheus1944, oil, oil crayon, wax
crayon, 19 x 14"
Wifredo Lam: Jungle
1943oil on paper
239.4 x 229.9cm
Miro: Dutch Interior1928
Arshile Gorky: Betrothal II1947
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Star Catcher
1956
mixed media on paper, 18-3/4 x 13"
Harmony, 1956, oil on masonite, 29 x 36"
Toward the Tower
1961
oil on masonite, 48 x 39"
Solar Music
1955
oil on masonite, 35 x 24"
Creation of the Birds, 1958oil on masonite, 20 x 24"
Useless Science or the Alchemist, 1955, oil on
masonite, 41 x 21"
Women and Surrealism
1. Remedios Varo2. Leonora Carrington3. Dorothea Tanning
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Burning of Giordano Bruno, 1964oil on canvas, 60.5x80.5cm
Sidhe, the White People of the Tuatha de' Danaan1954, oil on canvas, 59.5 x 78.5 cm
Garden of Paracelsus, 1957oil on canvas, 86.5 x 120 cm
Self-PortraitLeonora Carrington, 1938, oil on canvas
25 1/2" x 32"
To Be Reborn
1960
oil on masonite, 31 x 18"
Breaking the Vicious Cycle
1962
mixed media, 25 x 13"
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Project for a Painting
1979
oil on canvas
57 1/2x 44 3/4'
Children's Games, 1942Interior, 1953
oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in
Dorothea Tanning: A Little Night Music (Eine Kleine Nacht Musik), 1944, oil/canvas, 16 x 24"
Chiki, ton pays, 1947, oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm
Sachiel, the Angel of Thursday, 1967, oil on canvas, 41 x 60.5 cm
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