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 Péret.

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

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.

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.

Innocence

Negro Attacked by a Jaguar, Henri Rousseau 1910

unknown

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare 1781

"His taste for tragic lighting effects and his fondness for fairy landscapes, where wyverns mingle with winged toads, redeem his over literary inspiration: Shakespeare." Sarane Alexandrian.  

Sunday Afternoon

Michael Vincent Manalo, The Premonition 2000s

You can almost see the clouds moving...

Dusk love

"M. Cachoud loves the night, and he proves it by exhibiting a large number of nocturnal paintings at the Georges Petit Gallery. "They make one dream" says the catalogue. That is a nice way of saying that they make one go to sleep." Apollinaire 1911.

Jane Poupelet, around 1911

Giovanni Boldini, Peaceful Days 1875

A Rossiter Kind of Day

Alison Rossiter, Darko (Sears Roebuck) Rough, exact expiration date unknown, c. 1940's