
Dorothea TanningUSA, 1910–2012Må man se det?
Minneapolis, USA
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1950s–1970s
Becomes an active printmaker
While living in France she works in the ateliers of Georges Visat and Pierre Chave and makes work for limited-edition artists’ books by such poets as Alain Bosquet, René Crevel, Lena Leclerq and André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
c. 1955
Her canvases “splinter”: a break with Surrealism
Working in Paris and Huismes, in the mid-1950s she moves away from Surrealism: her images grow fragmented and prismatic. In her words, around 1955 her canvases literally splintered, as if she had broken the mirror.
1955
A house of their own in Touraine
From 1955 the couple live in a house of their own in Touraine.
1957
Appears in Richter’s “8 x 8”
She performs in Hans Richter’s avant-garde film 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements.