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An exclusive video tour of Fantastic women
By Schirn Magazin
The women surrealists wanted to change society, to escape bourgeois limitations and classic gender roles: Curator Ingrid Pfeiffer gives exclusive...
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Let’s get analytical!
By Julia Schaake
The Surrealists created their pictorial worlds from dreams and myths. Well-known psychoanalysts would certainly have had something to say about this.
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Of women who rule the world
By Alyce Mahon
In her art, Leonor Fini created a new social order, populated by sphinxes and militant heroines. And was inspired by numerous historical influences.
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How comedy gets into art
By Johanna Laub
Can art actually be funny? With satirical scenes and exaggerated characters, Richard Jackson uses classic strategies from comedy. And thereby tests...
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„I am in training, don’t kiss me“
By Juliet Jacques
How women surrealists (de)constructed gender and by doing so defied the fetishization of female beauty.
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Not your Doll
By Marie Sophie Beckmann
The women surrealists redefined female roles – and actively opposed the image of women as muses, dream beings and passive objects.
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One of a kind
By Julia Schmitz
In order to avoid gender clichés, Marie Čermínová adopted the artist name Toyen – inspired by the French word “citoyen” for citizen.
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Far away from Paris: the surrealistic network in Mexico
By Tere Arcq
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...
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The Golden Hour Dreamland
By Elena Schmidt
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...
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Divine horses, masked hyenas and prancing dogs
By Hanno Hauenstein
Many women artists had animal dream creatures as alter egos. And with them, they regained a piece of their freedom.
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Richard Jackson. Unexpected Unexplained Unaccepted
By Schirn Magazin
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...
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Painted manifestos. The Murals of Mexican Modernism
By Franciska Nowel Camino
Hannah Ryggen admired the Mexican murals not only because of their powerful visual language. The revolutionary Muralists also created politically...