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“I like to think of it as the photographic Mona Lisa of the twentieth century,”
The larger reckoning with the problems of being a muse has taken on epic proportions in the past few years…
Kiki de Montparnasse. Such a great name. It’s an exciting name, an erotic name, a name that evokes a certain place and a certain time. But it’s not a name that we immediately recognize, although her image is.
Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Dômiers to refer to the international rat pack of writers, artists, and other creative types who patronized the café.
Her collection is the embodiment of who she was, but it’s really her being present in it that makes people stand in line to see it every day.
By blurring the lines between her private self and her public persona, she essentially invented the idea of making an art out of being yourself.
What is Surrealism? And what did it become in the hands of women artists? The Surrealist gallery is one of the most visited in the Museum.
Why is a urinal considered a piece of art? What does the word Dada represent? What are Dada soirees?
A love letter to romance and Paris in the 1920s, with its nucleus of historic artists and writers drawn to the city by its beauty and irresistible forces of creative gravity.”
There were many women Surrealists, who are only now beginning to receive long overdue recognition.