"Spanish Landscape with Mountains," Dora Carrington, c. 1924.

It may surprise you, but this seemingly innocuous landscape is considered a work of Surrealism.

Carrington (1893-1932) worked mostly as a designer and illustrator in her life, didn't exhibit, and really didn't become famous for her painting until after her death. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and was most famous for her unconventional but loving relationship with critic Lytton Strachey.

She loved traveling in Spain and was deeply impressed by the scenery there. Here he have orange hills with cacti, and some tiny travelers that seem a bit out of perspective. But it's the hills in the middle distance that attract attention; they're the color and texture of human skin and are very evocative of breasts. In her work she sometimes is noted as making the personal public, and she is doing so here.

In recent decades she has become recognized as a significant artist and has been the subject of multiple retrospectives, biographies, and the film "Carrington" where she was played by Emma Thompson.

From the Tate Gallery, London.

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A Bloomsbury ramble
Nan Quick is on the trail of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, retracing the footsteps of the famous sisters in the Weald of East Sussex

https://lucire.com/2025/0803vo0.shtml #EastSussex #England #UK #VanessaBell #VirginiaWoolf #BloomsburyGroup #BloomsburySet #history #travel #Volante

Bloomsbury`s Impact on Avantgarde and Functionalism

The Bloomsbury Group was a loose association of intellectuals, artists, philosophers and writers, active between 1910 and the early 1930s. Initially (before 1910), they were a group of curious and open-minded friends who met in Universities in London and gathered and partly lived in a country house called Charleston, in Sussex, outside London. They shared a great interest in art, design, literature and a modern bohemian lifestyle, social progress and creative innovation. Read more…

https://magnificenth.com/2025/07/07/bloomsburys-impact-on-avantgarde-and-functionalism/

Mythos Bloomsbury Group: Am Freitag, den 9. Mai um 20 Uhr laden Übersetzer und Herausgeber Tobias Schwartz und Schauspielerin Franziska Melzer im Rahmen der Feministischen Buchwoche zu einer Lesung mit Texten von Virginia Woolf und Molly MacCarthy in der Dorotheenstädtischen Buchhandlung in Moabit! https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/mythos-bloomsbury-group/#more-785

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Am Samstag, den 22. März ist Indiebookday! Und den feiern wir ab 19 Uhr im Kultur-Café des NBHS in Berlin-Schöneberg: Nach einer kleinen Verlagsvorstellung sprechen wir mit Übersetzer und Herausgeber Tobias Schwartz über die Bloomsbury-Schriftstellerin Molly MacCarthy und deren Roman »Kleine Fliegen der Gewissheit«, der im Herbst bei uns erschienen ist. https://www.nbhs.de/aktuelles/kalender/kalender-detail/termin/wir-sprechen-ueber-literatur-20250322

#indiebookday #MollyMacCarthy #bloomsbury #bloomsburygroup #VirginiaWoolf #avivaverlag