Hanna Moon’s New Magazine Explores What It Means to Be a Woman Artist
Orla Brennan, AnOther
February 2025
In Dorothea Tanning’s dreamlike paintings, girls transform into mythical beings, plants roam around eerie houses, and characters drift through worlds of uneasy, perpetual motion. There’s a self-portrait the American surrealist produced in 1944, however, that presents a rare moment of stillness. Standing neatly on a podium in her underwear with her back to the viewer, the artist depicts herself as a tiny figure gazing out over the expanse of a blue-tinged canyon. As she contemplates the world before her, the mood is unclear. She appears both confident, solid as a pillar; yet also fragile, perhaps overcome by the vast indifference of the universe. Like much of Tanning’s work, its magic is that the more you look, the more you see. […]