Leonora Carrington: Surrealism’s lost female artist
The Woman Men Want but Not in the Art World
The tendency for women artists to be overshadowed by their male partners was particularly fraught for Surrealists. — Leonora Carrington, 2000.
At the forefront of Surrealism’s feminist approach is Leonora Carrington, Surrealism’s hidden and forgotten monarch.
Born into a wealthy British textile merchant family, Carrington was at the forefront of societal and familial pressure to perform a role fitting to reflect her socio-economical status.
With the unyielding pressure to conform to social norms and expectations, art was Carrington’s outlet, a way for her to rebel against the pressures of conformation, and express herself.
Sons of men, daughters of women
While Carrington found solace, or more specifically, an affinity with the Surrealists through their radical manifesto and artistic…
