#dorotheatanning

[mia-paintings]

Tempest in Yellow, Dorothea Tanning, 1956, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

abstracted image with figure in LRC with well-defined face; figural elements in LLC; predominately yellow with tans, browns and cream in LLC, blue in top center, and orange and pink in ULC; grey strip frame Size: 38 1/4 x 57 1/2 in. (97.16 x 146.05 cm) (canvas) 39 7/8 x 59 1/4 x 2 9/16 in. (101.28 x 150.5 x 6.51 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/102931/

[moma-prints]

Seventh Peril (Septième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux), Dorothea Tanning, 1950, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Purchase Size: composition (irreg.): 14 3/8 × 10 7/16" (36.5 × 26.5 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 × 12 3/4" (50.4 × 32.4 cm) Medium: One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/102067

[arrogant-hair]

Dorothea Tanning — A Very Happy Picture. 1947

[honeysuckleglitterbomb]

All Hallow’s Eve, by Dorothea Tanning (also the author of these images) Be perfect, make it otherwise. Yesterday is torn in shreds. Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes Rip apart the breathing beds. Hear bones crack and pulverize. Doom creeps in on rubber treads. Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads, Try lipstick shades to tranquilize Fears of age and general dreads. Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies, Don't take faucets for fountainheads. Drink tasty antidotes. Otherwise You and the werewolf: newlyweds.

[300artistascontemporaneos]

TANNING, DOROTHEA ( Estados Unidos, 1910)

Esta artista destaca por su aporte a la historia con su obra pictórica. Pertenece a la rama del surrealismo y el dadaísmo y es una obra oscura, onírica y perturbadora. Se dedico a la pintura, la escultura, la ilustración y también trabajó como escritora.

[ciciiliu]

Dorothea Tanning- Children’s Games

This is my favorite painting, and I’ll explain why: 

I first saw Dorothea Tanning’s Children’s Games when I was 15. The painting embodied both a playfulness and an emerging unknown in me, yet I couldn’t grasp it. As I grew older, I better understood my connection in its desperate chase, femininity tearing down layers of lust and vulgarity beneath the surface. Her painting captures young girls’ desperate confrontation with the erotic unknown, how I felt evading temptation and still brutally longing for it. 

Maintaining fantasies of innocent romance, I felt restricted by a femininity I was just as eager to embrace. By depicting girls’ growing pains with the foresight of a woman who’s found her balance, Tanning’s art showed me the perils of defining womanhood. Seeing her painting, I learned her balance. I am not kept by my sexuality or femininity, and I now choose to tear down the walls that define it so strictly. 

I wish to see if digital media can create pieces like this, or whether there is a kind of rawness of something made without technology. 

March 7, 2021

[elegant-artist]

Dorothea Tanning 1) Adrift (1967) 2) Tango lives (1977)

[mtaartsdesign]

As the world marks the very first International Education Day, we honor the crucial role education plays in our lives with this 2012 Poetry in Motion poem “Graduation” by Dorothea Tanning with artwork by Joan Linder from her installation “The Flora of Bensonhurst” for the 71st Street (D) station in Brooklyn.