Inspiration for your imagination inspired by Leonora Carrington – Artes 110

Leonora Carrington, born in Lancashire, England in 1917, was a leading artist in the Surrealist movement. The Surrealist movement started in France after World War I and spread around the world as artists and art works traveled along with their ideas. Dreams, deep thoughts, automatism, collage, assemblage and chance were among the methods the Surrealists used to look into the unconscious mind and awake the imagination. Early in life, Leonora learned about folk and fairy tales as well as Celtic legends from her nannies and the stories her Irish mother read to her. She received much of her early education from tutors and later was exposed to art and culture in Florence, Italy, when she attended school there. She briefly lived in New York and moved to Mexico City in 1942 where she connected with other artists that had fled Europe during World War ll, as well as Mexican artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. She lived in Mexico for the rest of her life.