SURREALISM

SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Andre Breton

Andre Breton

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Man Ray

Georges Bataille

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

Exquisite Corpse drawing

Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautreamont

Jean Arp

Jean Arp – Shirt Front and Fork

Jean Arp – Head with Three Annoying Objects

Max Ernst – Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale

Max Ernst – The Horde

Max Ernst – Europe After the Rain

Max Ernst Surrealism and Painting

Joan Miro

Joan Miro

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Joan Miro

Joan Miro

Joan Miro

Joan Miro

Joan Miro

Joan Miro “Object”

Joan Miro “Poetess”

Andre Masson - Pasiphae

Yves Tanguy – Mama, Papa is Wounded

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali – Accomodations of Desire

Salvador Dali – Accomodations of Desire

Salvador Dali – Gala contemplating the sea….

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte – The Human Condition

Rene Magritte – The Rape

Meret Oppenheim - Object

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

Pablo Picasso

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

AMERICAN ARTBEFORE WWII

THE EIGHT

The Ashcan School

Robert Henri

Robert Henri

Robert Henri

John Sloan

John Sloan

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Gallery 291

Edward Steichen

Marsden Hartley

Charles Demuth

Eugene Speicher

Eugene Speicher

“It doesn’t matter what you do [in art school]. I’m going to become a great painter and you’re just going to end up teaching art in some girl’s school.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe

HARLEMRENAISSANCE

The Armory Show

James Van Der Zee

James Van Der Zee

AMERICANREGIONALISM

Thomas HartBenton

Thomas HartBenton

Thomas HartBenton

Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

Jacob Lawrence

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

Dorothea Lange

Weegee

Weegee

Diego Rivera

“July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.”

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”

Frida Kahlo