Now back to our (much happier) scheduled program....
Surrealist Drawings from the Druker Collection is the current exhibit over at the campus art museum. It contains the sketches, drawings, and typically smaller works of the Surrealists. You'll see some old favorites, including Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner, and Max Ernst. You'll also see some new works that are from people who are outside the "mainstream," including Kay Sage, Maria Toyen, Leonor Fini, and Dorthea Tanning.
I've always found Surrealism interesting. They weren't interested in drawing some boring old tree exactly the way it existed in nature. They wanted to explore their inner selves, delving down into the subconcious. In order to do this, they introduced a lot of new things to the art world: the role of chance, "automatic writing," and various new processes to create art, such as decalcomania and frotterage.
I would highly recommend seeing this. Some of my favorite works were the Yves Tanguy decalcomania piece "Untitled (deer)," the Magritte sketch "The Storm" (where a man is chased by knives and forks raining from the sky), the Maria Toyen work "While he was gone the bad grass had grown...," the Georges Hugnet collage poem "Adieu partout (Farewell everyone)," Max Ernst's "The Sea and the Sun," Dorothea Tanning's "Simplified Botany - The Land," and Kay Sage's "Minutes." Unfortunately since I couldn't take pictures, and they don't have the really cool works on the site, I'll leave you with this nifty number from Victor Brauner entitled "L'Archechat" (The Arch-cat, 1946).
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