Across
- 1. Reba used them as a case study of pronouns and gender fluidity
- 3. Mirabel linked the work of this Afro-Cuban artist to others, including Picasso
- 5. Melissa speculated that these threadlike strands growing from the skin might actually be a surrealist symbol in the work of Léonor Fini
- 6. Moozhan told us she was the only professional woman painter to exhibit at the International Surrealist Exhibition in England in 1936
- 10. Barb told us that Mouse and Kelly copied elements of this artist’s work in their spacey rock posters of the 60s
- 11. guy who broke with the Surrealists and took several other members over to a magazine called Documents
- 16. the “Pope” of Surrealism
- 17. Emilie found some surreal elements in the films of this Soviet film director and artist of Armenian descent
- 18. Taylor identified alchemy as one of the themes in the works of this Spanish artist working in Mexico
- 19. the first Paris-based magazine for like minded proto-surrealists
- 20. German artist whose disturbing dolls seem perverse (to me, anyway)
- 22. woman artist who flipped Surrealism upside down by painting goddesses watching over nude men
- 26. wacky Spaniard whose technical skills lent his dreamlike paintings a new kind of Surrealism
- 27. writing or drawing while letting go of conscious control
- 29. rubbing irregular surfaces to provoke visions in chalk, etc.
- 30. Italian artist whose empty streets and long shadows influenced Surrealist “dreamscapes” (2 words)
- 32. hands down that these were seen in a lithograph by Mallo, according to Aiden
- 34. one of the first women artists of note within the general circle of Surrealism; maker of self-portraits that seem to ask questions about normative gender categories
- 36. David claimed that Pokemon Red led to a supersized version of this (2 words)
- 37. Barb’s descriptions of rock and roll posters in the 1960s linked Surrealism to this “druggy” experience
- 39. published in 1924, it was the official “start” of Surrealism
- 40. Cassie brought this theme to our attention in the works of several artists starved for attention
- 42. shocking avant-garde film of 1929 that depicted symbolic sexual aggression (3 words)
- 44. another word for a type of “hand-painted dream photography”
- 45. the guy who could spontaneously speak a kind of poetry in his sleep
- 47. maker of the fur cup and saucer in 1936
- 48. corpse drawing game in which collaborators can’t see what each other are doing (2 words)
- 51. doll-like objects collected by Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, according to Ann
- 54. the real mentally ill woman who revealed the surreal side of Paris
- 55. the German artist who excelled at rubbing and collage
Down
- 1. what a number of dissidents called the “Pope” of Surrealism in 1930
- 2. the irrational name of the irrational movement that preceded Surrealism
- 4. Aiden unravelled some threads about the life and work of this almost forgotten Spanish woman Surrealist
- 7. Sarah thinks it’s possible that Toyen used these as symbols of death in her painting Sad Day
- 8. the first major Belgian Surrealist
- 9. Ray the first important Dada and Surrealist filmmaker (2 words)
- 12. Reuben found some traces of surrealism in the graphic novels of this character invented by a Belgian artist
- 13. Cassie talked about some of the surreal devices used by this Ukrainian-American filmmaker-dancer
- 14. Surrealist method by which one stares at one thing and it becomes another (2 words)
- 15. woman artist who met the “Pope” of Surrealism in Mexico in 1938
- 21. glossy art magazine that followed the drier Surrealist journals around 1933
- 23. the technical term for seeing things in random patterns
- 24. Maggie told us about this South Californian painter, whose style is called post-surrealism
- 25. Sarah speculated that this Czech artist’s pseudonym might have played on the French word for “citizen”
- 28. market where on might actually see a sewing machine and an umbrella, etc. (2 words)
- 31. woman artist who painted herself as a kind of “witch” associated with animals
- 33. chance term for Freudian parapraxis (meaningful mistakes, like the Freudian slip) (2 words)
- 35. Sam reported that Duchamp’s famous readymade might have been by her (2 words)
- 38. Peter found evidence of a conspiracy theory in this case of this Dadaistic character, who boxed his way to a dubious celebrity
- 41. crumbling motor town commemorated by Kahlo, according to Mariana
- 43. Spanish artist who practiced “biomorphic” abstraction
- 46. the “father” of the study of the unconscious
- 49. Max Ernst’s and her lived in Sedona, Arizona for a while
- 50. Devanee said one of this guy’s innovations was painting with smoke, or fumage
- 52. author of the Paris Peasant
- 53. Devanee told us these “familiars” were in Paradise in a painting by Varo