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Betty Woodrow

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Note for me.

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The Surreal World of Set Designer Shona Heath

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Barbara Knezevic is an artist based in Dublin. Her work is primarily object based, finding form as individual, discrete artworks and more recently as complex stagings and formations of objects and image-making.

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Royalty, Wealth, Queenly

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Oddities, Occultism, Witchy

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All items feminine, from Queenly to Witchy = duality of the female? Feel like womanhood is a cliche theme though..

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So many gemstones, stone studded cave within box?

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Joseph Cornell Canopic Jars

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If I was going with jars, I would concentrate on natural objects, soils, plants, dried flowers and the rocks/gemstones only..

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Started face.

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Hips helped! Was going to add over a brighter green fluff for the jacket any tips of fixing it? Could definitely be better.

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Until recently, even leading scholars weren't aware that the British-born Mexican Surrealist Leonora Carrington had created her own tarot deck. Curator Tere Arcq was conducting research for a 2018 retrospective of Carrington's work at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City when she unearthed it: a suite of 22 major arcana cards made around 1955, hand-painted with oil on squares of hard board and accented with delicate applications of gold and silver leaf. The Tarot of Leonora Carrington, a new book with contributions from Arcq, art historian Susan Aberth, and Carrington's son Gabriel, takes stock of - and in the case of the limited-edition version, comes with a facsimile set of - this deck.

Occultism, the book demonstrates, was thoroughly knit into the fabric of Carrington's life. The artist grew up surrounded by Celtic fairy tales, yarns spun by her family's Irish matriarchs. As a painting student in London, she became fascinated with alchemy. She went on to establish herself as a preeminent Surrealist in France, where with her peers she mined manifold mystical practices in search of alternative forms of knowledge. By the time Carrington relocated to Mexico in 1942, she was well-versed in astrology, alchemy, Kabbalah, mythology, witchcraft, and tarot - topics that would bond her to her friend and fellow Surrealist expat Remedios Varo, as well as Octavio Paz, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and María Félix. Carrington both built community through occultism and gravitated toward the possible worlds that the occult envisioned. When she read Robert Graves's The White Goddess, about a mythic ancient matriarchal society, in 1948, she described the experience as "the greatest revelation of my life."

Leonora Carrington, "Playing Tarot" (c. 1955) (copyright Estate of Leonora Carrington/ARS, New York)

Carrington's tarot cards are populated by her characteristically fey figures, often androgynes or human-animal hybrids, set against backdrops in deep, full hues: cobalt, lapis, mulberry, gold. She drew upon archetypal decks including gilded examples from 15th century Italy, the Tarot of Marseilles beloved by many Surrealists, and the popular Rider-Waite deck from 1909. The book puzzles over the artist's additions and omissions in relation to these predecessors, using biographical cues and a knowledge of visual symbolism to "read" her cards - not so unlike a tarot card reader. In Carrington's Chariot card, two female creatures who normally face away from one another face toward one another, bound by a heart; the authors suggest that choices like this one reflect the artist's belief in feminized collaboration, which was tied up with her contributions to the feminist movement and her love of goddess lore alike.

Leonora Carrington, "The Sun (XIX)" (c. 1955) (copyright Estate of Leonora Carrington/ARS, New York)

The book's analysis of drawings and paintings spanning Carrington's career elucidates that tarot iconography was likewise an animating force in her artwork. Some references are overt, as in her 1995 drawing of people at a table with tarot cards. Others are more coded: two self-portraits from 1949 and 1973 riff on the Hermit card, which traditionally depicts a lone figure with a lantern to denote - among other things, tarot cards being endlessly interpretable - the frequently isolating work of introspection. In one self-portrait, Carrington paints herself as a poncho draped over a coat rack; in the other, her lantern contains a parrot instead of a flame. A sense of play and imagination, a fundamental openness to alternative ways of being, was always Carrington's guiding light.

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Fulgur Press, 2021), by Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq, is now available on Bookshop.

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A Revelatory Tarot Deck by Leonora Carrington

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Until recently, even leading scholars weren't aware that the British-born Mexican Surrealist Leonora Carrington had created her own tarot deck. Curator Tere Arcq was conducting research for a 2018 retrospective of Carrington's work at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City when she unearthed it: a suite of 22 major arcana cards made around 1955, hand-painted with oil on squares of hard board and accented with delicate applications of gold and silver leaf.

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Slapped on wash. Dislike every colour haha. Will fix tomorrow.

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Dana Schutz - Works | Thomas Dane Gallery

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Works by Dana Schutz: Large Model , 2020, Neanderthal , 2020, Boat Group , 2020, Floating Pieta , 2020, Juggler , 2019, Lion , 2019, Blind Search Party , 2020, Bound , 2019, Suspicious Minds , 2019, Mountain Group , 2018, Beat Out the Sun , 2018, Boatman , 2018,...

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There are some really interesting interviews here that you might find interesting

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Nashashibi/Skaer – Thinking Through Other Artists | Tate

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Backdrop too dark. Will lighten.

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French Woman Artist Victorine Meurent, More than a Model

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Drema Drudge shares her experience of writing a novel about Victorine Meurent, focusing on her as an artist, rather than as a model for famous male artists.

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Painting over red.

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Leonora Carrington
Alison Pilkington
Fiona Finnegan
Michel Borremans

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Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney attended the Bradford School of Art before entering the Royal College of Art, where he remained between 1959 and 1962. His classmates included Allen Jones and R. B. Kitaj.

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David Hockney. 82 portraits and 1 Still-Life | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney attended the Bradford School of Art before entering the Royal College of Art, where he remained between 1959 and 1962. His classmates included Allen Jones and R. B. Kitaj.

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WIP