Alyce Mahon on the Enigmatic Dorothea Tanning
Alyce Mahon, ART UK
April 2019
The painting Woman Artist, Nude, Standing by American surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) portrays a life-size nude. Her luminous flesh almost tremors underneath soft brushstrokes and a dramatic black mantilla and her piercing dark eyes are just visible under the black lace of the mantilla, their darkness all the more fierce against the flaming red of a poppy flower. […]