Beautiful Girl - Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning's "Beautiful Girl" is a Surrealist painting featuring a figure behind bars, with dreamlike imagery and a muted colour palette. The work explores themes of confinement and the subconscious.
Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was an American painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism, and she married fellow Surrealist artist Max Ernst in 1946. Tanning's work often explores themes of the subconscious, dreams, and the uncanny. She produced art for over seven decades, and her work is held in many major museum collections. In "Beautiful Girl", Tanning presents a dreamlike scene with a figure behind bars. The painting features a muted colour palette, with soft pinks, blues, and greens. The composition is divided by a wooden frame, creating a sense of confinement and separation. The words "beautiful girl" are painted across the top of the frame, while other words such as "skylike", "slender", and "brideness" appear on the vertical supports. A small painting within the painting shows a figure on stilts, adding to the surreal atmosphere. To the left, a sculptural form resembling a horse's head adds an element of the unexpected.
Beautiful Girl - Dorothea Tanning
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12-colour giclée printing on FSC-certified 200gsm fine art paper, with lifetime fade resistance.
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Beautiful print, great quality and love it with the white frame. Delivery was really fast. I've had loads of compliments from visitors as I've hung it in my hallway as the first thing you see when you enter the house. Couldn't be happier.
Dorothea Tanning
a Surrealist painter who married Max Ernst in a double wedding with Man Ray, then became a published poet at ninety-four and died at a hundred and one
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