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Leonora Carrington (Chorley, Lancashire, 1917 - ) is a British-born Mexican surrealist painter, sculptor and a novelist. In Florence, Italy, she received her first formal training in painting; in London she attended the Chelsea School of Arts and the painting Academy of Amédée Ozenfant. In 1937, she met Max Ernst, with whom she became involved romantically and artistically. In Mexico, with Remedios Varo, she developed an illusionistic Surrealism.
Nothing Carrington has created--ever--is one-dimensional or literal, despite appearing so. Her universe, multi-determined, layered, and polyvalent, is not readily accessible. The source of her creativity flows through her personal history, lifting fragments of ancestral information, documenting moments in time to transform them into permanent events. [1]
Los hombres pájaro de Burnley, 1977.
Carrington married photographer Chiqui Weisz in 1946. Carrington has spent many years in Mexico, a country that has offered her enormous inspiration, with its many legends and rich mythology. During her life in Mexico, she has created an enormous body of artistic work, creating hundreds of wonderful paintings, sculptures as well as writing her most important books. [2]
Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska has won the Barcelona prize "Biblioteca Breve de Novela", 2011, for his novel about the life of Leonora Carrington.
Self-Portrait, 1937.
Les Distractions de Dagobert, 1945.
Amor che move il Sole et l'altre Stelle, 1946.
Good Morning Dr Fischer, ca. 1951.
Boceto, Mundo Mágico de los Mayas, 1965.
Who Art thou, White Face?, 1959.
