Masked Portraits
Posted: November 24, 2014 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: American, dada, dadaism, face, identity, Man Ray, mask, modern art, mud, portrait, Surrealism Leave a commentFour portraits by Man Ray:
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Posted: October 31, 2014 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: collage, death, halloween, John Stezaker, mask, postcard, skull Leave a commentJuliet et Margaret
Posted: March 21, 2014 Filed under: Art | Tags: American, artist, breasts, dada, flower, Juliet, Juliet Browner, leaf, Man Ray, Margaret, Margaret Neiman, mask, modernist, nude, papier mache, Paris, Surrealism, surrealist, wife, woman Leave a commentJuliet Browner and Margaret Neiman wear papier mache masks designed and created by Man Ray
Prophet or Madman?
Posted: April 29, 2013 Filed under: Art, Photography, Prose | Tags: atmospheric disturbances, Claude Cahun, imagination, madman, mask, prophet, random, reality, Rivka Galchen, Self Portrait, Surrealism, vulnerability Leave a comment“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a “madman” to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the “author” might be reality and the “madman” just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.”
From Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen