There will be a Gallery Talk on Surrealism and Cubism (artists such as Picasso, Braque, Morandi, Magritte and Moore) on Tuesday 25th January, from 10.30am until 12.30pm at Tate Modern. If you are interested in this talk, please contact me and I’ll send you further details.
From the birth of Modern Art, artists have vigorously explored the figure and still life settings, in their studio. The Cubists, led by Picasso and Braque, represented reality through fragmenting images with overlapping viewpoints. Artists continually explored and reinvented the mundane, this particularly climaxed with Morandi’s obsessive exploration of tableware. Whilst Modigliani and Picasso incorporated the study of African masks into the faces of their figures, the Surrealists attempted to tap into the unconscious through the analysis of dreams in order to both understand humanity and undermine authority.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the representation of women is constantly in flux and alters in parallel with the developments in women rights. This is evident in the female figures position as object in Morandi, Degas and Dali’s works, to subject and artist in Bourgeois and Tanning’s works.
