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Powerful female artists

the unknown of surrealism, serie :N° 1 Dora Maar

By Soledad Bravo BrionesPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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These powerful and fragile women dedicated their life to express herself, in their most complicated ways dismembering in their works the Intermediate sexualities, the performative of body and sexuality.

In a dirty little world, with a crazy tribune in art vanguard, the women and non binary expression wasn't had neatness and technique necessary for being in the top with men like Breton or Picasso, also mostly of time the particularly way of performing adopt a female style accepted for a woman.

This is time to talk of Dora Maar, who real name was Henriette Theodora Markovitch (change in 1931 to proposal of Henri Cartier-Bresson) was an experimental photographer with direct look that inspires resilience and a powerful mind what materialized all in successful compositions and unusual surrealistic photograph in 1930 while parallel capturing a facet more urban of wild live in Paris against the economic depression and that portray the face of desperation and poverty are the perfect example for reflect how reivindicative as her job, and what was her artistic capacity.

this woman is her own motor of explosion, never a muse, (but certainly eclipsed by the tortuous relationship with the artist) it's more than the face that Picasso portrays in” The Weeping Woman”, what only the psychological abuse of a man that always travels halfway between intelligence and neurosis, vainly appeasing the talent of the women who accompany him can make.

The dreamlike space that perfectly make, transport us to her head, to her fears and sadness, we can see clearly that Dora want show us, the modern in times of great depression, war and uncertainty. The work of light and shadows in composition created a space in to a swimming pool where one can sleep and not die, peaceful rest.

Or reflecting that introspective about suffering and pain, with candles without flame, and a naked woman who unprotected look the other side avoiding the camera or even not knowing that be there.

in her photo-collage is easy capt emotion and expressions, scream, expressing suffering and dreams, her hope of transformation and literally escape of that shell, who even if next to home (ocean means art) she wants a change or only a breath.

thanks to experimental techniques and a huge talent, the mental issues, and the feeling to be broken and don't know how to do to fix it, could materialize in these photographs

I let you another composition of this powerful woman, this work is like her, complicated silent as a photograph but with a cry for help implicit in every shot. Like when we're in a journey through a mystery forest or inside the Pan's Labyrinth, and our only company was Dora, who never talk or smile (of all her picture in only two, smile) and the only way to find the exit is understood that trip and love in their complexity and estrange creatures.

the history change in 1945, in a heteromerous and external way but also in the private life of Dora Maar this year (the year of ending in her relationship with Picasso) her style of life has worrying change, and retires from her artistic career surrendering at a life with a stronger religious character, “after Picasso only god”.

But this woman who never conceded an interview know how touch her own feeling in a magically way, and sadly, because she couldn't or because she doesn't want, never let us another work.

i let us a few more photos of her journey thought Barcelona (I know isn't the better definition) and i hope that you love the dora's work and continue know a wonderful females artists.

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