Research & Process
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
Helen Frankenthaler, Artist
frida khalo & Surrealism
In 1938, André Breton, the founder of surrealism, arranged for Kahlo’s first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City, insisting that, although Kahlo developed her art in ignorance of the ideas of Surrealism, she was clearly a surrealist. Kahlo, said, however, “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
This research explores the concept on how the transatlantic encounter between Breton and Kahlo illuminated Bretons desire to proliferate a revolution using art and literature by diffusing Surrealism as a political-art movement.
HENNA AROUND THE WORLD
In 1938, André Breton, the founder of surrealism, arranged for Kahlo’s first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City, insisting that, although Kahlo developed her art in ignorance of the ideas of Surrealism, she was clearly a surrealist. Kahlo, said, however, “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
This research explores the concept on how the transatlantic encounter between Breton and Kahlo illuminated Bretons desire to proliferate a revolution using art and literature by diffusing Surrealism as a political-art movement.