Leonora Carrington Study Course - 6 - Humour, Animals, Politics
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the most creative of the Surrealist artists.
Her paintings are charming, intriguing, enigmatic, and sometimes impenetrable. She was working for nearly seven decades and her output was prolific, covering many topics and styles.
Adam McLean has created a seven-part study course on Carrington's work.
The Early Years
Mexico
Celtic
Esoteric and magical
Her map diagram
Humour, animals
Late works
Nowadays, it seems that most art historians drag an artist's work into the commentator's worldview. They ruthlessly press an interpretation onto the work, rather than letting it speak for itself. Adam McLean avoids recontextualising Carrington's art but instead provides background information that can flesh out the readers' appreciation of her paintings, point to the source material from which she drew, the internal links between the complex symbols and show the links between many of her works.
Providing an external narrative to an artist's work can be quite destructive, stealing the viewer's appreciation of a painting by assigning a meaning that was not within the motivation of the artist. Sadly, some art historians elevate themselves above the artist by encapsulating their work in a web of meaning, suggesting that they understand what lay behind the painting more than the artist herself did. This is the folly of Postmodernism, which has polluted art history, perhaps more than any other discipline.
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Mr. McLean, literally I shed tears of joy when I found your channel today. I'm an artist who has an ever-growing fascination about symbolism, surrealism, esotericism and illuminated manuscripts. I can't wait to delve into your videos today and many following days. I truly feel lucky to have found your channel and website. Thank you so much for sharing your immense knowledge with us. I'm looking forward to your future videos.
I am indeed quietly and profoundly thrilled and inspired to find your channel today. I stumbled on your films about Leonora Carrington while playing around on You Tube in (covid19) semi-self-isolation at my home/studio here in Bali. I met Leonora Carrington in Mexico City, I think it was 1967 or 68. I was a struggling young surrealist painter living on the shores of Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, and was in Mexico DF for the launch of an exhibition of my work at the Instituto Anglo-Mexicano. I went to invite her to see my work which I think she did. Fascinating and inspiring person, especially for me, a very young and immature painter for whom names like Carrington and Ernst were and remain monumental.
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I would like to add you to my surrealism pages www.surrealism.website I see you are influenced by alchemical imagery.
Thank you, due to your channel I found Leonora Carrington. I love her art and books.. Thank you for making this accessible to people like me.. Also your voice is so relaxing😍 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for uploading all of this. It’s really insightfull and you go much deeper than my art history teacher ever did. Thanks so much ♥️
it over exercises my brain moving them about, scanning the environment .. thus my eyes are tired ∴ i chose to listen .. 'when she died, the neighbours sighed' .. be chuckling on that one for Weeks ;]
I am not fond of esoteric and goths. But I would love to own an image of her self portrait she depicted in the early years. 😊