In 1922, Max Ernst painted the painting
Au rendez-vous des amis,
group portrait with his co-religionists of surrealism, and numbered them from 1 to 17. We recognize André Breton in majesty, Giorgio De Chirico, Jean Arp, Aragon, etc. .
Only one woman is represented.
Gala, muse of modern art, at best an artist without works.
And the others ?
Surrealism, which adopted the thoughts of Arthur Rimbaud (to change the world), Karl Marx (to transform the world) and the research of Sigmund Freud, is it a movement subject to patriarchy?
The exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre takes up the subject with a title in the form of a question:
Surréalisme au feminine?
The curators, Alix Agret and Dominique Païni, explore the links of women artists, poets, with the movement thus defined by Breton in his first Manifesto: "Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of associations neglected until to him, to the omnipotence of dreams, to the disinterested play of thought.
The route shows the works of major artists such as Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Lee Miller... It also reveals lesser known personalities such as Mimi Parent, Marion Adnams, Suzanne Van Damme... Where we will discover that women, once more, have been made invisible.
“Feminine surrealism?”, until September 10, at the Musée de Montmartre, in Paris.
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