Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist Depictions of Women’s Pain
Debra Brehmer, Hyperallergic
December 2018
In the 1960s, when the American painter Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) got sick of the smell of turpentine, she started working with fabric. She had just moved from Sedona, Arizona to Paris with her husband, Max Ernst. “It came up from a sort of rage, as if I were working blind,” she said in a filmed interview about this period of sculptural experimentation. […]