{"id":1481,"date":"2016-01-10T03:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:17:43","slug":"women-surrealist-artists-from-mexico-a-show-in-sao-paulo-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Women surrealist artists from Mexico: A show in Sao Paulo (December 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>The Tomei Ohtake Foundation <\/strong>houses a major exposition of Japanese-Brazilian artist Ohtake\u2019s work, but it is much more.\u00a0 The building itself it worth a trip, but it also houses traveling exhibits such as this one on Mexican Women Surrealist Artists (running December \u2013 January, 2015\/16).\n

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\"IMG_9428\" — The Ohtake Institute is itself a work of art, dedicated to Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ohtake Institute building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A famous Lucien Bloch portrait of Frida Kahlo was used as the billboard wall for the exhibit. At the right is the entrance to a documentary film on Kahlo and the political\/artistic world she inhabited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Self portrait of Frida Kahlo with Diego Rivera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Frida Kahlo, cradling Diego Rivera, and in turn being cradled by nature, the earth, the universe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Diego Rivera, romanticized as a younger, less corpulent man than the photographs of the time show.\u00a0 For a contrast, see the portrait by Modigliani in the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art (earlier post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of Frida Kahlo\u2019s circle of artists included Lola Alvarez Bravo, the photographer of his beautifu gelatin print of Frida and her dogs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mexican surrealist artist Olga Costa (Corazon egoista), \u201cThe Selfish Heart\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Silvia Fein, Garota de Ajijic, \u201cGirl from Ajijic.\u201d This work is actually part of the holdings of the University of Wisconsin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Andre Breton, a significant influence on Frida Kahlo and Mexican surrealism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This work by Remedios Varo is \u201cWoman Leavng the Psychoanalist\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Also Remedio Varo, \u201cMinotaur\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The only physical artifacts in the show were clothing of Frida Kahlo. Without being to identify them exactly, you had the feeling of having seen them in her paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tomei Ohtake Foundation houses a major exposition of Japanese-Brazilian artist Ohtake\u2019s work, but it is much more.\u00a0 The building itself it worth a trip, but it also houses traveling exhibits such as this one on Mexican Women Surrealist Artists (running December \u2013 January, 2015\/16). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading Women surrealist artists from Mexico: A show in Sao Paulo (December 2015)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-brazil-and-latin-america"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}