The Eclectic Bookstore: Surrealism, photography, travel to Japan/France, web, digital photography, cookbooks seasonal selections
Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo & Other Surrealists including a few modern photographers: Michiko Kon, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman.: Links to Galleries, Bios, and articles plus a bibliography on them.
A historical examination of surrealism's engagement with the subject of desire,
this exhibition will include many of the iconic works associated with surrealism
and will include San Francisco, CA. Featured on the third floor: Leonor Fini's artwork and her
contemporaries: Stella Snead, Anne Bachelier, Leonora Carrington Oil paintings,
water colors, lithographs, mixed media and pen and ink. Fini's work is an intriguing
kaleidescope of feminine sensuality, erotic awareness, whimsy and humor. In
many of her paintings her use of a pastel palette is deceptive. Her work is
often layered with sexual nuance or social commentary contradicting an almost
dreamy sweetness. While her work is known in Europe, it is rare to find it in
the U.S. New York. The purpose of Surrealism, according to its founder and chief spokesman,
Andre Breton, was, “to resolve the previously contradictory condition of
dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” In New York,
European and American artists met at the studio of Stanley William Hayter, a
British printmaker who is today considered one of the most influential modern
printmakers. Among other Surrealist emigrants represented in the exhibition
are Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteauand Max Ernst. Seven lithographs
and one etching by Dorothea Tanning acquaint viewers with this under-recognized
American member of the Surrealist movement. San Francisco, CA. Dada and Surrealist Art from The Vera, Silvia, and Arturo
Schwarz Collection in the Israel Museum. Approximately 200 provocative works
document the raucous, convention-challenging, highly creative histories of two
closely related movements in early 20th-century art: Dada and Surrealism. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Works on paper by Man Ray including the 1926 Revolving
Doors portfolio are the subject of this exhibition which looks at the important
contribution made by Man Ray to Surrealism and Abstraction. The Revolving Doors
portfolio represents an important body of work, which reflects Man Ray's interest
in color and abstraction. Also included in this exhibition will be the photogravure
series L'Electricité along with other works by Man Ray.
Miami, Florida. This exhibition will focus on Chilean-born artist Roberto Sebastian
Matta’s time in the United States from 1939–1948. During this decade,
Matta developed some of the most unique and powerful works of his career, fusing
surrealist practices of automatism with a wide-ranging approach to painting
in which abstraction and figuration increasingly intertwined. He also helped
forge important links between the European Surrealists in exile in the United
States and a generation of younger American artists who would become known as
abstract expressionists, with lasting consequences for the development of their
work. Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Fantastic Art Centre is a non-profit project established by Christian De Boeck in 1977. The aim, mission and purpose of the Fantastic Art Centre is:
Surrealism: a short essay on surrealism. Short blurb and images on the following artists: Max Ernst (okay, innovative), Magritte (cool), Salvador Dali (full of himself, contrived but I admit I like parodies of his work), R emedios Varo (wonderful, she takes you in and opens you up), Frida Kahlo (well-known, defined as a surrealist but refused the label, maybe more of a magical realist), Leonora Carrington (wonderful, myths bleed into life)
Art History on Surrealism: Lots of essays and images on surrealism. Includes a link directly to the famous groundwork by André Breton, "What is Surrealism?" Problem is very chauvinists: only lists the guys as painters.
Guggenheim on Surrealism. Without Peggy Guggenheim, we may not have come to know many of those artists featured. Much as I appreciate her efforts, the surrealist section at the museum website only features the guys so there are a few holes there. However, the artists in the artist section includes modern surrealists featured in the MIT Mirror show: Louise Bourgeois, Faith Ringgold (she's not a surrealist but I like her quilts and narratives), Cindy Sherman
ArtLex on Surrealism: Another dictionary type entry on surrealism with links to various artists. Several links are out of date and the blinking ad is irritating. Has a number images of images by various artists but ignores the women artists working in surrealism at that time. Images by James Ensor, Marc Chagall , Max Ernst , Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti, Escher, Magritte , Tanguy, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali , Peter Blume, Alfred Pellan , Louise Bourgeois (okay, included one woman but that was all), Matta. A few links.
surrealism.co.uk. The Brits strike again. an international community of more than 70 living artists worldwide.
now Surreal. A site for the expression of your ideas, the collaboration of artwork projects and the exhibition of surrealist artwork. Also you can exhibit your artwork and fiction.
Retif´s Art Index: Artists : Painting : Surrealism: Links on artists, mostly still living as far as I can see.
The New Surrealism. Contemporary artists and web essays on surrealism.
SuRrEaLiSm's Journal. A web journal. The idea has potential but it's way too close to reality to be called surrealism.
Walter
Benjamin, Surrealism and Photography. A paper by Rajeev S. Patke presented
at Workshop on "Literature as Revolt in Twentieth Century Europe", 17 August
1998, The University of Haifa, Israel (6th ISSEI Conference)]
igram salon. "A group of artists headed by Ellen Sandor from (art)n Laboratory, and Dana Plepys from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, have created an artistically empowering aperture that offers artists an exciting way to explore synthetic worlds through a virtual photographic eye,,,Inspired by Man Ray and the Surrealists, who were known for using photography to record their fabricated worlds, this new direction celebrates the evolution of photography". The Salon includes images by the surrealists as well as modern works by the collaborators. (pretty cool)
The american museum of photography has several surrealist choices:
Italo Calvino: Cybernetics and Ghosts by David C. Weichert. I love the title
Yahoo's links on Dada and Surrealism
Dada and Surrealism: Reports
from the Unconscious, Excerpted from the book Women Artists.
Yuri and Nathan Brusovany on transrealism in their work
Rudy
Rucker , writer, one of the founders of cyberpunk. I still haven't read
his sci-fi work but he started using the word transrealism in the 80's. I found
out about him when someone asked me if my definition of transrealim matched
his. He's on my "to read" list but haven't had time as yet. Here are a few more
links for those doing research on him:
his own bio, where he states: "As my own alternative to cyberpunk, I also
developed a style of writing which I call transrealism. The essence of transrealism
is to write about one's real life in fantastic terms."; TWO
CYBERPUNKS: STERLING & RUCKER by John Shirley; FICTION
THAT BLEEDS TRUTH by Jon Lebkowsky. He became a mathematician but continued
as a writer.
CYBER NOODLE SOUP. I like the title
so I put it here but more like cyberpunk.
My definition of transrealism to describe
my work and others that I feel are working in a certain style
Dolores Bermak, photographer, USA
Daniel Boyle USA
Yuri and Nathan Brusovany , painter/photographer, Russia?. Also at PaintBrush.net
John W. Diehl, photographer, USA
Cliff Finity, painter, USA
Karl Franklin, painter, USA
Amy E. Fraser, painter, USA
Mikhail J. Ilin , painter, Russian
Richard Jue, painter, USA
me-Nakazato LaFreniere, photographer & digital, USA
Alexander Shteynberg, painter, Ukraine.
Cynthia Tom, painter, USA
Pablo Weisz-Carrington, painter, USA
Zazie, Vivid Surrealism, digital, animated, USA
Artcyclopedia: An art search engine
Art 420.2: Issues in Women's Art: List of Artists Discussed: many names and a few links.
Course: Dada and Surrealist film. A good mix of reading list and films.
For comments, broken links, or to suggest links, please e-mail nakazato@hungryflower.com
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Surrealist Exhibits
(If I come across them.)
Tate Modern Museum, London: Surrealism:
Desire Unbound
20 September - 16 December 2001.
works by less well known artists, including Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Maria,
Jindrich Styrsky, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, and RemediosVaro. Art,
film, photographs, and some rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists
in their celebration of love and desire, as well as a selection of manuscripts,
letters and documentary photographs that show something of the personal contexts
of the group's exploration of desire. This exhibition will travel to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 6, 2002-May 12, 2002).Weinstein: Leonor Fini
and women surrealist contemporaries
January 2002.Salvador Dali: IN SPITE
OF EVERYTHING, SPRING: JACQUELINE LAMBA (1910-1993)
11/08/2001 - 2/24/2002
St. Petersburg, FL. A selection of roughly 25 paintings from the 1930s to the
1980s by surrealist and André Breton's wife. Lamba began working as a surrealist
in New York in the 1940s. After the war she returned to France, where her work
engaged with the French landscape. Organized by Mills College, California. Guest
Curated by Salomon Grimberg. . Located next to the University of South Florida
Bayboro Campus at 1000 Third Street South, houses a comprehensive collection of
the Spanish artist's works, Dating from 1914-80, Dali's paintings range from small
impressionistic works to gigantic surrealistic montages. Sculptures and other
objects illustrate Dali's artistic diversity.
Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery: Life
Is But A Dream: Surrealist Prints From the Permanent Collections
Jan. 8-March 17, 2002de Young Museum: Dreaming
with Open Eyes
February 2, 2002 - April 28, 2002.Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten: An
exhibition featuring JANE GRAVEROL (1905 - 1984) and RACHEL BAES (1912 - 1983)April 6th 2002 - June 23rd 2002
Antwerpen, Netherlands.Publications about surrealism mistakenly pay little if any attention to the paintings of Jane Graverol and Rachel Baes, two Belgian surrealists.
Fifty works, executed between1940 and ca. 1975, attest to the bizarre imagination of both artists, while many letters, photographs and other personal documents evoke the lives of these two women.
Haggerty Museum: Man
Ray on Paper
25 April - July 2002. Miami Art Museum: Matta
in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s
March 20 - June 2, 2002Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: DALÍ
IN FOCUS: GRADIVA
Madrid, Spain. Gradiva, the subject of Wilhelm Jensen's novel of the same name
fascinated Freud, Dalí, and the surrealists. This exhibition traces Dalí's
extensive treatment of the theme, a kind of modern psychoanalytic parable. Organized
by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Curated by William Jeffett. .
June 3 - September 29, 2002
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Museum: Salvador
Dali's Surrealist World
July 5 - September 1, 2002.Museum of Contemporary Art: Matta
in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s
July 13–October 20, 2002
Chicago, Illinois. This exhibition will focus on Chilean-born artist Roberto
Sebastian Matta’s time in the United States from 1939–1948. During
this decade, Matta developed some of the most unique and powerful works of his
career, fusing surrealist practices of automatism with a wide-ranging approach
to painting in which abstraction and figuration increasingly intertwined. He
also helped forge important links between the European Surrealists in exile
in the United States and a generation of younger American artists who would
become known as abstract expressionists, with lasting consequences for the development
of their work.. It will open at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
and travel to the Miami Art Museum prior to its presentation in Chicago.Salvador Dali: DALÍ
IN FOCUS: GRADIVA
November 2, 2002 - January 19, 2003
St. Petersburg, FL. Gradiva, the subject of Wilhelm Jensen's novel of the same
name fascinated Freud, Dalí, and the surrealists. This exhibition traces
Dalí's extensive treatment of the theme, a kind of modern psychoanalytic
parable. Organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Curated by William
Jeffett. . Located next to the University of South Florida Bayboro Campus at 1000
Third Street South, houses a comprehensive collection of the Spanish artist's
works, Dating from 1914-80, Dali's paintings range from small impressionistic
works to gigantic surrealistic montages. Sculptures and other objects illustrate
Dali's artistic diversity.
Surrealism/Transrealism/Magic Realism
This is what I like so this is what you get. My opinions are dropped in where you don't want it but you'll like the links.
1. To be the definitive internationally recognised information database/resource on fantastic/surreal/visionary art. The database will eventually contain documentation on some 4000 artists from the Renaissance to the present whose work merits their inclusion.
2. To publish a comprehensive book on fantastic art which will include an exhaustive dictionary of artists including a concise bio- and complete bibio-/filmography.
Includes the following links:
Fantastic Art Links
Surrealist resources and links : International in orientation. (pretty cool. definitely worth a look)
Transrealism Definitions
I thought I coined a new term to define my work as surreal seemed insufficient
only to find out others have used it for two decades. There seems to be two other
definitions: a genre within sci-fi/cyberpunk literature by Rudy Rucker and an
visual art genre from Russia although some of those artists from that group may
have immigrated and now reside in other countries.
Modern surrealists, transrealists (alphabetically)
General Art sites