Female surrealists

In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m sharing some women artists who don’t get as much recognition as the male artists from their time.

All self-portraits are, to varying extents, spectacles of autobiography and for Leonor Fini this was no exception; this work is an iconic personal statement by the artist and an exploration of her own artistic power. In this captivating self-portrait, painted a few years after her first major exhibition in New York and as she rose to become a figure of increasing profile within Paris café society, Fini takes up her position as an established artist both as an individual and in complex…

The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important EstateLEONOR FINI1908 - 1996FIGURES ON A TERRACE (COMPOS

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Like the Abstract Expressionist movement that followed in its wake, Surrealism's history has largely been written as a narrative of heroic transgressions committed by bad boys, which did no favors for the women involved in the movement. Even Surrealism's most celebrated woman artists—Meret Oppenheim, whose

Always cherchez la femme, people.

Even though history celebrates male surrealists, it was the women who gave the movement its truly conceptual charge

The artist who still created work aged 100, and inspired Sarah Lucas and Louise Bourgeois.

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Welcome Summer! Remedios Varo was a Spanish surrealist painter. She is known as one of the world famous para-surrealist artists of 20th century. Her paintings were inspired by Renaissance art and P…