Dorothea Tanning - Pushing the Boundaries of Surrealism | TateShots

Discover Dorothea Tanning, the artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealism.
Dorothea Tanning was an American surrealist artist whose career spanned over seven decades.
Self-taught, her early paintings depict with precision dream-like scenes. Sunflowers, chess pieces, fabric, and doors, always slightly ajar, recur in her work.
Dorothea says she ‘got fed up with the turpentine’ and in the 1960s began working with fabric, pioneering the use of soft sculptures.
Towards the end of her career, Tanning experimented with colour and a more abstract painting style. These large ‘prismatic’ paintings remain figurative and retain dreamlike and fleshy qualities.
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[@RyanWStevensonmusic]

I composed the music for this film on Dorothea. Love her work.

[@bishakhachakraborty6765]

It is very nice and apt background music

[@CheshireCat01]

Wow! What's the name of the composition?

[@RyanWStevensonmusic]

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[@CheshireCat01]

@@RyanWStevensonmusic thank you so much! I really like your style, it is inspiring, and I became obsessed with this composition

[@capricosm8086]

Awesome !

[@Emiliapocalypse]

“Keep your eye on your inner world, and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars” marvelous advice 🌻

[@cruzyferreria1009]

After all,do any of these people give a darn about us?🤔mmm...highly doubt it.best advice ever😄amazing artist too.

[@wayneh-s2985]

Spot on advice in 2023

[@shawncurtis3686]

Vastly under appreciated artist.

[@irisvanvalkenhoef7636]

I love to hear about female artists, like Dorothea Tanning, who didn't end up in historybooks. I really missed them in arthistoryclass.

[@liliratkovics8622]

'Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.' This is so beautiful and so very true. 🤍

[@StephenS-2024]

As an artist and art aficionado, i can only say, her work has always blown me away. As much as Ernst any day.

[@CanSonmez]

Excellent, this is the perfect video to get a basic grounding in her life and work before heading to the exhibition. Looking forward to it: great job by the Tate on this mini-doc.

[@thehubatevergreen]

Her writing is amazing - never has writing ever impacted my dreams as much as hers, if I read one of her short stories before bedtime I literally dream what she described. She is a true surrealist. I would say an even better writer than painter.

[@cetanacetana8265]

I love seeing her walking around her installation

[@gregdahlen4375]

her art looks good and thought-provoking. interesting how she shows wild nature intruding into very orderly, civilized lives. can you have the benefits of both, both civilization and wild nature?

[@kayfletcher4169]

Really informative little film. Makes me want to find out more about this versatile artist.

[@wolfil8019]

Excellent little video. The title of the video amuses me. I would interpret "Dorothea Tanning -- Pushing the Boundaries of Surrealism" simple as "Dorothea Tanning -- Surrealist", because pushing and breaking down boundaries is central to the surrealist project and always has been. Dorothea Tanning certainly did so brilliantly ... because she was a genuine surrealist. Surrealism continues as a global movement for the transformation of life and culture to this day, because it is horizonal movement, one that pushes boundaries because it aims for the horizon, what James P. Carse would call an "infinite game". But an excellent video ...

[@themovingdance2744]

Painter and writer....love this ... glamorous......she wrote a memoir .....nice

[@noeljordanracca723]

Thank you Tate for showing the works of this remarkable artist.

[@RSEFX]

Thanks! Have been interested in her work since the early 60's. Fascinating.

[@johndaarteest]

Went recently but had to curtail the visit due to time restraints, will go again soon, what I saw was great.

[@gillbawden]

Wow, this lady was brilliant. Her hotel work reminds me of American Horror Story. I wonder if the guys that wrote and produced that used her as inspiration?

[@anoukshiel]

Amazing show ! Definitely worth seeing!!

[@Terrie1949]

Marvelous video!

[@JSterlingBeauty1]

amazing

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

Really a great artist.

[@tanyaleef5138]

Was a very good painter, didn't know about her installations, would love to find out more

[@DJarry394]

These are helping me tremendously. Leonora Carrington especially, since she was a crusty old broad, like I am. I am a painter who had gone into different, lesser acceptable media. People alway want paintings. Not digital prints, nor experimental videos. I tend to work instinctively like these women. I had since I was 12, and discovered surrealism and psychedelic art. Truly inspiring. It might just get me to start painting again, and move to Mexico. I think I’m in the wrong city, wrong country.

[@goeth89b]

Great content! Thanks!

[@comfyduckpeter]

I'm a bit puzzled by the sunflower bit,there's a lot of different kind of flowers in sedona. Lots of wildflowers in many different colours,many flowers you can grow there too

[@webspecific]

Around 55 sec. into the clip, you see a series that reminds me so much of of Cecily Brown's contemporary work. I've often wondered if Cecily made/makes that connection. Usually, she's shown in a line of male artists, probably not by design but by ignorance. Yes, I agree with those here who say Tanning was under appreciated.

[@nastyatumys]

thank uuuuuuuuuu

[@constellationsarthistory]

She's so charming what special footage

[@MoMindSetCrypto]

Amazing grace

[@Sirius263]

Phenomenal!

[@adolfinadestefani1474]

Un'immaginario che va oltre il pensiero. Intrigante e complessa tutta la sua opera artistica dalla pittura alla scrittura.

[@willylewis1]

Wonderful art. The video could have featured more of it .

[@brianearner5092]

The perfect phrase

[@jcwt_pdx]

Awesome art. 😃❤️💜🌹

[@lindalysell5065]

😂❤

[@avtm06]

She lived in completely same years as my great grandma, 1910-2012

[@artisttariqrafiq6500]

She is talented

[@petawilliams8099]

Very wise woman

[@Magastube]

Wow ..

[@kelvynification]

Max Ernst... Dorothea and Leonora. Dude!

[@ananatali1]

The music is beautiful! What is it?

[@klavinsarmands97]

£12 at Tate modern - absolutely worth it. 👌🏼

[@om-nj2hw]

This just goes to show how sexist the world is that I didn't learn about this supremely talented artist back when I was an art major some time ago. Learned all about the usual boys, but not her. Crazy.

[@om-nj2hw]

@Gary Nelson you have issues dude, this was in no way whining , and your point about covid has nothing to do with the video or my comment. and fyi imdoing plent with myself, for myself. doesnt change history though

[@geraintapiorwerth7522]

She was truly awesome, a real live goddess

[@geraintapiorwerth7522]

@Doris Chen Agree, a great artist and wonderful woman and 'goddess' in my culture is a compliment, a woman truly in touch with unique feminine energies and creativity

[@LarissaTheBrave]

i am writing an essay and would like to know more about dorothea. does anyone know where i can find the full length film where she paints, makes her sculptures and places them ???

[@ichhasserosen664]

I'm not sure which one you were talking about but the clips that are used in this short video are taken from Insomnia, which is available on her official website.

[@RinaElsayed773]

Bella, inteligente, súper talentosa y muy poco valorada....una pena.

[@caitlinrogers8016]

This work is brilliant, but for some reason it bothers me that there wasn't a clear way to interpret her work. Perhaps that is a flaw of mine though. It also felt like they were afraid of labeling the work as dark.

[@atari_k1]

You're not labelling it if it feels dark for you

[@organicsludgeqt7037]

What is a star? To me this artist could become akin to a movie star. Is it the same? Probably not, as an actor embodies someone else and an artist does not embody but is themselves.

[@danemeow8]

Video was ok, couldn't disagree more with that last line, though. Also wish there was more of dorothea and her work and her actual quotes and things

Another interesting and unknown woman artist...

[@zlol_ssbm]

Max Ernst showin up like the boogyman in all these peoples lives

[@charlottewoodford2375]

shes the perfect example of a painter who utilises her feminine nature to their advatage instead of fighting against it and trying to appear identical to a male.

[@melkathrine6654]

Charlotte Woodford can you give me an example of a female artist who tries to be identical to a male?

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

That is just your opinion and personal interpretation, not necessarily truth or what she truly was doing

[@notnek202]

Some weird shit.

[@thecinematicmind]

Accurate and it is magnificent.

[@1hayes1]

I'm sick of hearing that artists like Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Ruth Asawa and so on were neglected but no longer, cause our times is so woke. What's next, claiming that Frieda Khalo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama, and Louise Bourgeois are under-appreciated?