BEYOND SURREALISM, DOROTHEA TANNING's "DOESN'T THE PAINT SAY IT ALL?" Doors of Perception, later paintings.
Doesn't the Paint Say It All? DORTHEA TANNING (KASMIN GALLERY) " Andre Breton, poet and critic, published The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Surrealism was to unite conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in 'an absolute reality, a surreality.' " Brittanica Dorthea Tanning, known as a surrealist artis, along with her husband, Max Ernest, would not describe her later paintings as surrealism. But these paintings are akin to the "trance between two worlds" that Breton described as "the magic dictation: of automatic revelation." Doesn't the Paint Say It All? DORTHEA TANNING (KASMIN GALLERY), a new book about Tanning's later work, examines these singular paintings from a pivotal one-woman show. ...