Female Surrealist Artists with Lizzie Perrotte

Women weren’t present at the birth of the movement when poet André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. But inevitably women were attracted to the movement and its revolutionary ideas—interpreting dreams as expressions of subconscious thought, fusing the familiar with the unknown, and generally doing away with rational inhibition.
Dora Maar, Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim all made major contributions to Surrealism.

It is thanks to these artists and their social networks that after World War II the movement developed beyond the Parisian circle, notably in the United States and Mexico, with figures such as Remedios Varo  and Frida Kahlo.

In the series:
Mar. 25: Female Surrealist Artists with Lizzie Perrotte
Apr. 1: Surrealism at the Pompidou with Patrick Bade