Dorothea Tanning
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943
Oil on canvas
At night one imagines all sorts of happenings in the shadows of the darkness. A hotel bedroom is both intimate and unfamiliar, almost alienation, and this can conjure a feeling of menace and unknown forces at play. But these unknown forces are a projection of our own imaginations: our own private nightmares.
—from an interview with Victoria Carruthers, quoted in her essay “Between Silence and Sound: John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the Sculptures of Dorothea Tanning,” Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010, p. 112.
(via ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’, Dorothea Tanning - Tate collection)
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Amrita Sher- Gil
Haldi Grinders
Oil on canvas
c. 1930
Source: contemporaryart-india.com
Amrita Sher-Gil
South Indian Villagers Going to a Market
Oil on canvas
1936-37
Source: topindianartist.blogspot.com
Amrita Sher-Gil
Self-Portrait as Tahitian
Oil on canvas
1934
Source: sikhnet.com
