Tamara de Lempicka: Baroness with a Brush
Known for her many iconic and sensual portraits of liberated women of the 1920s and ’30s, Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka made waves of excitement during the recent Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in London in February this year. One of her paintings, known as Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932), set […]
Persistence of Memory in Surrealist Art
As an art movement that aimed to depict the subconscious, many critics found Surrealism unnerving and illogical. But that was exactly the point —an alternative mode of expression. The Surrealist art movement was founded and led by André Breton in 1924. He defined it as “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes […]