Dorothea Tanning was an American Surrealist artist who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, USA, in 1910.
She was a successful commercial artist while continuing to pursue her painting.
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now“
She described most of her artwork with an exciting coefficient between the objects and its styles, which successfully caught many viewers’ attention. Her work of art was notable for its interest in actual female experience while exploring the unconscious – the inner, deepest dreams – and creativity.
Most of her Surrealist artwork reveals disheveled female figures in domestic settings, depicted in a state of sensual reverie, to subvert gender expectations. In contrast, others take the more traditional route of assembling mismatched objects into strange still-lifes, to no less intriguing or disquieting effect, quite the opposite of her imagery.
Tanning’s artwork and this one are featured in the Fantastic Women Exhibition. The painting is now in a private collection in Germany.
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Voltage
Artist: Dorothea Tanning
Title: Voltage
Date: 1942
Style: Surrealism
Subject & Object: Nudity
Dimension: 28.3 cm x 30.8 cm
Location: Private Collection, Germany
Oil on canvas