‘Forbidden Games’ at Cleveland Museum of Art Offers Feast for Eyes, Mind
CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
By Carlo Wolff
OHIO---Surrealism aimed to bed the mundane in contexts that make it look otherworldly. Paralleling the developing field of psychoanalysis, it explored the subconscious, displaying the stuff of dreams.
While Surrealist painting is relatively well known, the profile of Surrealist photography is far lower, though Magritte and Ray also worked in that medium. How fruitful the terrain was for the camera in the 1920s through the 1940s, the peak years of the movement, comes clear in “Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography.” [link]
Cleveland Museum of Art: “Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography” (Ends Jan. 11, 2015); 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH; (216) 421-7350; clevelandart.org
By Carlo Wolff
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| Dora Maar, “Double Portrait with Hat,” 1936-37 |
While Surrealist painting is relatively well known, the profile of Surrealist photography is far lower, though Magritte and Ray also worked in that medium. How fruitful the terrain was for the camera in the 1920s through the 1940s, the peak years of the movement, comes clear in “Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography.” [link]
Cleveland Museum of Art: “Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography” (Ends Jan. 11, 2015); 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH; (216) 421-7350; clevelandart.org