{"id":235,"date":"2011-09-28T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-11-24T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:46:33","slug":"surrealism-at-the-vancouver-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/surrealism-at-the-vancouver-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealism at the Vancouver Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The VAG
Had much fun on Tuesday. Met my friend Ritch at the Vancouver Art Gallery. A surrealism showing. Ritch and I have been friends since we were teenagers. His real name is Rob but to me and my family, he’ll always be Ritchie \ud83d\ude42 He never ages, even though it’s been a few years since our last meeting, I recognized him instantly from a bench inside the VAG lobby. I love surrealism–anything goes. So inspirational and mind expanding.The surrealists of the early 20th C were heavily influenced by West Coast Aboriginal art. Also interesting is that the VAG was the first art gallery in the world to show Aboriginal Art as art<\/i> rather than craft<\/i> in 1955.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It was a pleasure viewing Dali’s work again. I feel a special link to Dali after being in Spain this summer and experiencing so much of his work. I also saw some of Leonora Carrington’s work–she only recently died this past year–one of only a few female artists surrealist work displayed.
\u00a0I must say that it is a shame that our surrealist history is dominated by male artists. Because, the truth is, this was a time in European history, when feminine sexuality was finally just beginning to emerge as existing. Thus, the male surrealist artists were really at a loss as to how to express this in their works. They really should have left it for the women artists to express. Women’s sexuality is perverted by the male surrealists. I think what will truly be interesting is to see how Western women artists express feminine sexuality in this century.<\/p>\n

BTW: what does it mean when a man continually smiles at you and then double raises his eyebrows at you Groucho Marx style? I kept ending up in the same viewing room at the art gallery as this stranger–a male. Each time we acknowledged each other’s presence with a friendly smile–until after several floors of viewing his smile was accompanied by a double eyebrow lift? A true surreal experience while \u00a0 \u00a0at the gallery.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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