Explore the Dreamlike World of Dorothea Tanning: An Artistic Retrospective - Art History School
Dorothea Tanning was an amazing American artist, a pioneer of Surrealism in America and also an author. Learn about the life of surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning in this Dorothea Tanning biography. The American artist Dorothea Tanning, daughter of Swedish émigré parents, was born on 25 August 1910 in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. At the age of sixteen she became a library assistant at the Galesburg Public Library. She was deeply influenced by the books she read and considered the idea of becoming a writer. In 1928 she studied at Knox College, a local liberal arts institution, and in 1930 moved to Chicago where she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Art, but left 3 weeks later. She was largely self-taught as an artist.
In 1936 she visited the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and saw works by René Magritte, Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, Marcel Duchamp and many others. The surrealist paintings had a profound effect on her.
In 1942 she met Max Ernst who was organising, with his wife Peggy Guggenheim, an exhibition of 31 female artists at her Art of this Century Gallery in New York. Ernst selected Tanning’s painting Birthday for the exhibition.
Dorothea Tanning’s work often combines a sinister sexuality with a fairy-tale childlike sensibility which is reminiscent of surrealist childhood fantasies and nightmares.
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst married in October 1946 and moved to Sedona, Arizona, USA. Later, whilst building their house there, Tanning wrote Abyss, a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure short story that became the novel ‘Chasm: A Weekend’ first published in 1949.
Around 1955 Tanning’s paintings moved away from meticulously rendered figurative dreamscapes due to her newfound interest in costume and stage design for the.
Tanning’s first retrospective exhibition took place in Belgium in 1967. When Ernst died in 1976, aged 84, Tanning was bereft. She published her memoir Birthday in 1986, and in 1994 established the Wallace Stevens Award for poetry. She created her last known paintings in 1998 but she continued to write until her death on 21 January 2012, aged 101.
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Outstanding and Legendary Artist. She certainly accomplished a lot in her lifetime.
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She certainly did. Cheers
Makes me remember things. I visited her at her studio on Lafayette St. in New York on several occasions between 1994 - 96.
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Wow, you are very lucky. Cheers
@veraqueiroz5037
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Wow, what a lucky opportunity! Congrats, Garen!
@nerd_alert927
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That is truly amazing! Wow!
What an amazing woman! Thanks for introducing me to her and her many and varied brilliant work! :)
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My pleasure. Cheers
I liked the format of this video with the info on the left and her art on the right. Tanning was so multitalented, what an amazing woman! Thanks for another great video!
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Glad you enjoyed it, and the new format. Cheers
What a fascinating and multi-talented artist. She was so prolific...still publishing her writing at the age of 100. Dorothea was truly a legend.
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I think she was
Outstanding as has been said, you always educate so well. She certainly got a lot done.
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Many thanks, she certainly was an outstanding artist.
Such a great video! Dorothea Tanning is utterly beguiling- one of a kind
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She certainly was.
Formidable! 🙏👏🏻🤸🏼🤗
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Thank you for introducing me to artists they didn’t bother to discuss in my undergraduate years.
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3 ай бұрын
My pleasure. Cheers
Dorothea Tanning ... my new favourite artist .. ... thank you for a wonderful video.
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My pleasure 😊
Art History School: OUSTANDING personality!
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She certainly was.
Great presentation loved every minute
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Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I'm getting quite the art education just by watching your videos. Now I know of and appreciate Dorthea Tanning.
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That's great, thanks
Great video Paul. What an amazing artist, lived life to the full!
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Couldn't agree more! Cheers
Love this, thank you. I was lucky enough to see an exhibition of her work at the Tate Modern in London in 2019. Birthday is one of my favourite painting of all time.
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She ought to be better known as a painter, she deserves it.
A very gifted and original artist.
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She certainly was
I absolutely love all of your videos and only wish they were longer (because I enjoy them so much and don't want them to end). THANK YOU!
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Wow, thank you! That's great. Cheers
WOW!!! As always you have introduced me to someone I did not know about but should have! I AM IN LOVE WITH DOROTHEA!!! I must research more on this amazing WOMAN artist!!!
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You are so welcome! I think she is a wonderful artist.
Yay, a new Art History School video! I just adore your presentations, thank you.
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Glad you like them! Cheers
Wonderfully informative. Thank you.
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Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Thank you very much for your effort in all videos you composs and for all the information it contains, art history in most brilliant educative style.
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Many thanks! Cheers
What an inspirational life! I love your work! Congratulations on your KZread milestone!!
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Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for the video. I did not know much about this artist so it was very informative for me. Her development as an artist is really quite astounding!
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She was a very interesting and creative artist. Glad you liked the video. Cheers
Thank you for the marvelous introduction to this fascinating artist.
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My pleasure
Thoroughly enjoyed it.! Thank you for another wonderful video and presentation. Love your channel. :)
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Thank you kindly! Nice to know. Cheers
Thank you for an amazing video about Dorothea Tanning. Well done....
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Thank you so much!
Fantastic explanation and work sir
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So nice of you. Cheers
Thank you so much, Paul, for introducing me to yet another artist I somehow missed being exposed to previously. As she's female, I'm not surprised to find her on that list re historical patriarchy. I love that she was not only both artist and writer, but also label defying and worked in multiple forms of art. My favorite work among those shared is Birthday, hands-down. The body language, outfit, bareness and its location, the multitude of doors, their openness and angles, the colors and use of light, dark and perspective, all the details and symbolism, just make me want to gaze into it for as long as I can. Have a great day. 💖
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Жыл бұрын
She was a very much under rated artist. I find her work fascinating. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
Great. Thsnk you do much. What a great video❤❤❤
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7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
I love your work!
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Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you! An outstanding artist presented so well!
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Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Wonderful video, love your enthusiasm!
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8 күн бұрын
Thanks so much! Cheers
Fascinating, as usual!!
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I love these videos! Happy to see a new one today
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Another perfect addition, sir!!!!
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Thank you kindly!
Great video great artwork nice to see a artist living along life
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Thank you so much 😀
Marvelous tribute!
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Thank you very much!
I wish Paul had made this before the Dorothea Tanning was at the Tate was shown. I'm interested to hear she wrote poetry. I get so tired of reading captions when work is on display, these Videos are full of information that really influence attitudes about artists with their openness - Many Thanks again Paul, that was great.
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Yes, I missed a trick there, but glad you liked the video. Cheers
Thank you for this brilliant presentation of such an interesting artist! 🌹
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Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Another great video! Please keep 'em coming!
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Thanks! Will do!
Fantastic
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Thank you! Cheers!
The best thanks 🙏
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You're welcome 😊
She was a legend.
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She certainly was.
Thanks sir.🙏👍👌👌👆👋👏
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You are welcome
Really great information about art work💕💕💕 Regards🎨 🖌
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I love your videos on women artist ❤would love to see more ❤
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Presumably, you have seen the others on my channel. There will be more in the future. Cheers
Thank you 🙏😍
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You're welcome 😊
I didn't know Tanning's story with as much detail as provided here, so this was quite interesting. I do like her work, but I often get it confused with that of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a Mexican-based artist of British origin, and Remedios Varo (1908-1963), a Spanish artist who like Carrington settled in Mexico, all three women working in a similar Surrealist idiom. Of Tanning's work illustrated in this upload, I find her 1942 painting 'Birthday' most engaging.
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You are right there are a lot of similarities between Dorothea and Leonora, both were very interesting artists.
Thank you❗️⚘️♥️
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You are so welcome
Don't go with the flow start riding the waves that's what she did. What a fabulous artist!
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She did. Glad you enjoyed the video
Thanks Paul. She was a legend. Did she ever have anything to do with the Mexico-based surrealists? In my head I thought she was part of that group.
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Жыл бұрын
I don't think she had much contact with the Mexican Surrealists - maybe you are thinking of Frida Kahlo perhaps?
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Her work reminds me a lot of that of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), who was long based in Mexico, though British by birth. Carrington's work in turn often makes me think of that of Remedios Varo (1908-1963), a Spaniard who relocated to Mexico and had did have close association with Carrington.
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I've long awaited a video of Dorothea. An outstanding, imagineering artist. She most certainly is underrated. A great shame that Phaidon didn't continue their video releases of art documentaries, and onto DVD, then BlueRay. My videos, which I bought many years ago, are quite knackered and having the former Phaidon releases on disc would have been treasured. The absence of these is annoying actually.
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Жыл бұрын
She was a wonderful artist, hopefully my video will go a little way in redressing the balance.
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@@ArtHistorySchool If I continued to be as creative, I wouldn't mind clocking out at over a hundred.
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True
GraciasS 💖
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Çok teşekkürler.
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Cheers
Superbe !
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Thank you
Love her
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She was good
Interesting
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Just osm
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Hey slow down! This is moving too fast. I can’t take in the left side of the screen and then the right before you zip it along. Love your channel. Please delve into the less common artists more. Seen too many bios of the top artists everyone is familiar with.
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Point taken, there are more lesser known artists coming up.
@robthetimekeeper2423
Жыл бұрын
I never heard of Tanning before. I found this video fascinating! Maybe you should create some videos of less common artists.
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@@robthetimekeeper2423 I feel the same. Was very happy to be able to discover Dorothea Tanning this morning. Amazing work
Can you make videos of Bangladeshi painters like SM Sultan, Zainul Abedin and many more.I'm looking forward for more videos. Thank you
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I'll have to look these painters up and see what they produce.
Hello sir I saw your most videos and also continue watching . its very interesting and amazing. Can you read a artist about Bhupen khakhar . He is Indian gay artist I love his work. if you make a video about Bhupen khakhar it’s so beneficial for me and other art student as well. Thanks.
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I don't know much about him, I'll have to look him up. Cheers
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Dorothea Tanning : Whirling desperately around in the watery pageant of art history and not making a single wave.
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You are entitled to your opinion, others would disagree.
She died too old, waaaoooooo !!!, what a productive artistic life
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When you are old you want to live as long as you can. It's exactly the same as when you are young. Remember, the exterior might look 80 but the mind is still 25. It's one of the lessons of life you appreciate as you get older.
I think she died on 31st Jan
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You are right, mistype unfortunately.
Hi sir with the greatest respect your change of format is practically unwatchable , because of the bombardment of visual information . I would assume someone has given you advice in this regard , so I humbly suggest you dispense with their input . Keep it informed and simple, as you use to do . Best wishes and kind regards as always
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I take your point, you are the second person to mention it. I will make changes to it to simplify it much as before. Cheers
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@@ArtHistorySchool hi sir sorry I’m late in replying , we have all as a family been affected by the bug if you know what I mean . First and foremost thank you for responding to my rather presumptuous comment , on reflection I was as is often the case somewhat over the top . But I was so keen to bring to your attention that your exciting format is so right , there seems to me little point in messing about with it . At least in a radical perspective , you and I know from an artistic perspective there comes a point when the work is finished , yet the temptation to press on is all consuming . Now obviously this can reap some rewards , but in my case that basically amounted to obliterating my starting point . My humble apologies for upsetting the preverbal apple cart , but I’ve seen so many media outlets ruined by a rush to be all exclusive only to be forgotten about when the next big thing comes around Best wishes and kind regards as always 😀👍👍👍
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Many thanks for your reply, there is absolutely no need for apologies. Friends also commented about there being too much to read and not enough time to read it. That has hopefully been addressed in the next video which will be about the Australian artist, Sydney Nolan. This format is intended for artists who are well known in their own countries, but who do not have the mega stardom of a Van Gogh or a Picasso.
Dorothea Tanning was a second rate artist. If Max Ernst had not been in her life, she would have died in total obscurity. She was impossible to work with and known for her disgraceful treatment of people and gallery staff. She was also known for criticizing the press releases from the galleries, insisting on a replacement written by her with inaccuracies and very obvious and irreparable grammar mistakes. She thought that her work surpassed many surrealists including Ernst. Her arrogance had no bound. During one of the shows that I helped curate, she asserted that her collectors and the public were going to buy all her work and the critics were going to finally recognize her greatness. None showed up, including people she claimed were her friends. Her nastiness wore out the few people she met through Ernst. It was a great relief when the show closed. The gallery owner apologized promising to listen to me next time.
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Very interesting to get insights from someone that actually met her. Your observations open up lots of questions. They were married for 30 years and nothing I have come across suggests it was a difficult marriage, but outsiders wouldn't know. I wonder if the death of Max and the forty years she spent on her own afterwards, created a loneliness and self indulgence that wasn't apparent when the two of them were together. From her writings she did seem to have loved him.
Under rated according to who? Over rated by you with her bad compositions. Her inspiration, Magritte leaves her in the dust.
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If you want to be taken seriously change your name