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After the outbreak of World War II, Mexico developed into a new center of the surrealist avant-garde. It was only here that many women artists found the freedom to reinvent themselves.
Welcome to the West Coast! L.A. was discovered as an art metropolis in the 1960s. Hundreds of galleries opened and a new generation of artists started competing with the New York scene.
Many women artists had animal dream creatures as alter egos. And with them, they regained a piece of their freedom.
More than any other artist of his time, Richard Jackson has focused his attention on the radical expansion of painting. The Schirn is presenting a selection of his “Rooms” for the first time in an exhibition.
How women surrealists (de)constructed gender and by doing so defied the fetishization of female beauty.
Hannah Ryggen admired the Mexican murals not only because of their powerful visual language. The revolutionary Muralists also created politically explosive works of art.
