Friday, May 16, 2014


CamiLa Leon

"In reality, no abstract art can exist, as art tends to represent figuratively either the artist's inner world, or the exterior world, or an interdependence between the two" Benjamin PĂ©ret.

Thursday, May 1, 2014


Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy 1912

Chirico is the painter of silences. He describes the moment of waiting, where everything holds its breath.


Max Ernest, Napoleon in the Wilderness 1941

Monday, April 14, 2014


Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel 1913

Dada filled its statements with incoherence, on the grounds that life itself is incoherent, and played havoc with art because art lovers had lost the idea of art. "It is using all his strength to bring idiotic everywhere" Tzara.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

To Walter de la Mare


Arnold Bocklin, Isle of the Dead 1886

"When the familiar scene is suddenly strange
Or the well known is what we have yet to learn,
And two worlds meet, and intersect, and change;

By whom, and by what means, was this designed?
The whispered incantation which allows
Free passage to the phantom of the mind?

By the delicate invisible web you wove- 
The inexplicable mystery of sound." TS Eliot

Oceanic Art



Unusual three-layered Gnau culture shell cache-sex from the Torricelli Mountains in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

The fascination of surrealists with Oceanic art derived from nostalgia for a lost world: its signs suggested the possibility of a life in paradise.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Innocence


Negro Attacked by a Jaguar, Henri Rousseau 1910