22 listopada to rocznica urodzin Dory Maar – jednej z najciekawszych postaci francuskiego surrealizmu. Fotografka, malarka, kobieta niejednoznaczna. Inspirowała, ale też tworzyła, analizowała, burzyła konwencje. Jej dorobek wykracza daleko poza związki z Picassem. (fot. Wikipedia)
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Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)
Portrait of Dora Maar
1936
Gelatin silver print (22,9 x 17,1cm)
Private collection

The myth of Dora Maar is one of the more enduring legends of the Surrealist legacy persisting to this day. A personage of wild reputation, she was until recently better known as Picasso's lover than as an artist in her own right.
Today, Dora Maar's artistic career has been resurrected to some degree but she is still more a product of myth than of fact. The popular characterization of her as an intelligent, creative, attractive and emotionally unstable woman stems significantly from her involvement with Picasso.
Dora Maar met Picasso for the first time at the Café Deux Magots, one of the centers of Surrealist café life, in 1935. It was an event that would cement Dora Maar's reputation in Surrealist circles and may very well be the impetus behind Man Ray's portrait of her.
"Pablo told me that one of the first times he saw Dora she was sitting at the Deux Magots. She was wearing black gloves with little pink flowers appliquéed on them. She took off the gloves and picked up a long, pointed knife, which she began to drive into the table between her outstretched fingers to see how close she could come to each finger without actually cutting herself. From time to time she missed by a tiny fraction of an inch and before she stopped playing with the knife, her hand was covered with blood. Pablo told me that was what made up his mind to interest himself in her. He was fascinated. He asked her to give him the gloves and he used to keep them in a vitrine at the Rue des Grands-Augustins, along with other mementos." (Gilot, Life With Picasso, pp. 85-6).
While the Surrealist lexicon was replete with references to hands and gloves, only Man Ray, upon learning of Maar's exploits with the blade, could concoct a composition employing seemingly separate hands and fingers while adding to the allure of this fantastic persona.

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
The Weeping Woman
1937
Oil on canvas (61 x 50 cm)
Tate

The Weeping Woman is a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso, the last of which was created in late 1937. The paintings depict Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and are closely associated with the iconography in his painting Guernica.

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Dora Maar (French, 1907-1997)
Double Portrait with Hat
1936-1937
Gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative (29,8 x 23,8 cm)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Dora Maar scavenged the two faces from a magazine assignment she did on springtime hats.
Maar sandwiched two negatives of the same model and painted the background and hat (or is it a decomposing halo?) onto the negative. Softening the emulsion, she scraped and lifted it off, techniques that involve destruction and suggest disintegration. The face evokes depictions of female faces in the art of her lover, Pablo Picasso, especially his 1937 paintings of weeping women for which Maar was the model.

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(1937)
Photo taken by #DoraMaar

⚪ Ein absolutes... Lieblingsfoto.
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