eek of Kindness... Max Ernst
Musee d'Orsay - "The stones are full of entrails. Bravo. Bravo.".......... women in a trance leave their beds and bedrooms to fly away. All weight, characteristic of reality, is abolished. Through these arched figures, Max Ernst illustrates the surrealist fascination with hysteria, a liberating and inspiring illness: "Praise be […] to hysteria and to its procession of young, naked women gliding along the rooftops. The problem of woman is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in the entire world. " - André Breton
Up until last year, the original collages of Une semaine de bonté, had only been exhibited once in their entirety in March 1936 at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Madrid, just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This exhibition is therefore a wonderful opportunity to see one of the best kept secrets of the twentieth century, and one of the major works of Surrealist art in which Max Ernst expressed his desire to defy established categories and to abolish the boundaries between genres.
..... having visited the exhibition throw on Jan Lenica's 'Labrynth (1963)' paper cut out animation for a disturbing exploration of hybrid collaged creatures, inspired by Ernst's wood cut
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Also so worth exploring
Andrezej Klimowski . Jan Svankmajer . The Brothers Quay
Strongly reminiscent of the naive art movements of Poland, Hungary, & the Balkan nations, an entire world is created scene by scene, of peasantry & ritual, until strangeness becomes familiar, & the world almost plausible.
