Sunday, February 24, 2019

Baltimore Museum Of Art - Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s

Tom and I went to the BMA's new exhibit today. It's called "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s". Great stuff.

From The BMA

Nearly 90 Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and André Masson are presented through a timely lens—that of war, violence, and exile.

Despite the political and personal turmoil brought on by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, avant-garde artists in Europe and those who sought refuge in the United States pushed themselves to create some of the most potent and striking images of the Surrealist movement. Monstrosities in the real world bred monsters in paintings and sculpture, on film, and in the pages of journals and artists’ books, resulting in a period of extraordinary creativity.










Saturday, February 09, 2019

Parenting and Nat's Cosmic Egg at the AVAM

Natalie and I went to the American Visionary Arts Museum today. I saw the new exhibit "Parenting" while Natalie went to a workshop and made her own cosmic egg.