Surrealism

Q          Is your work surrealist because that's what you like, or because you feel most articulate visually using surrealist, dream-like imagery? What school of artistic thought do you identify most with and why? Does your art reflect a particular style?

A          The Surrealists were a group of artists in the early part of the 20th century, started in 1920s Paris by poets, writers, and philosophers, later including film-makers, sculptors, and painters. They were fascinated by Freud and his investigation into the symbolic nature of dreams.
           Freud studied dreams in order to untangle their messages and learn about his patients. The Surrealists studied dreams and depicted them in order to set free their imaginations, and to provoke the art-viewing public into self-discovery of hidden, personal mysteries, which would liberate them from moral restraints. Surrealism was first and foremost a social revolutionary movement through art.
           I very much admire the work of Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, and Leonora Carrington, three female painters who lived in Mexico and were connected with the Surrealists. I am certainly influenced by the work of this group and have developed some of my own working methods partly because of them.

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