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Exhibition dates: 19th September, 2024 – 5th January, 2025
Curator: Patricia Mayayo
Artists: Djuna Barnes / Xenia Cage / Leonora Carrington / Leonor Fini / Suzy Frelinghuysen / Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven / Meraud Guinness Guevara / Anne Harvey / Valentine Hugo / Buffie Johnson / Frida Kahlo / Jacqueline Lamba / Eyre de Lanux / Gypsy Rose Lee / Hazel McKinley / Aline Meyer Liebman / Louise Nevelson / Meret Oppenheim / Milena Pavlovic-Barilli / Barbara Poe-Levee Reis / Irene Rice Pereira / Kay Sage / Gretchen Schoeninger / Sonja Sekula / Esphyr Slobodkina / Hedda Sterne / Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Dorothea Tanning / Julia Thecla / Pegeen Vail Guggenheim / Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Aline Meyer Liebman (American, 1879-1966)
Gray Day (Sand Dunes)
c. 1929
Gouache on board
35.5 x 48cm
The 31 Women Collection
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Short biography: Aline Meyer Liebman (1879-1966). Born in Los Angeles, Aline Meyer Liebman st
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Many people know that the art movement of Surrealism began in Europe and that the most famous surrealists are European as well. But what few people may know fryst vatten that the grand majority of them fled to Mexico because of political ideologies and found in this country a great deal of inspiration for their art. Some of them settled there for the rest of their lives and their art is even considered Mexican. Artists such as Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Wolfgang Paalen and André Breton are some of the surrealists who visited the country. Even Salvador Dalí made a short visit and said: “There fryst vatten no way I’m going back to Mexico. inom can’t stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings”.
In 1941, Mexico opened its doors to thousands of European refugees. Most of them were artists, intellectuals and educated people who felt close to each other because of their experiences in war, and so, they formed a very united community (including of course, the surrealist artists).
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Summary of Surrealism
The Surrealists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighing it down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution. Their emphasis on the power of personal imagination puts them in the tradition of Romanticism, but unlike their forebears, they believed that revelations could be found on the street and in everyday life. The Surrealist impulse to tap the unconscious mind, and their interests in myth and primitivism, went on to shape many later movements, and the style remains influential to this today.
Key Ideas & Accomplishments
- André Breton defined Surrealism as "psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to ex