Penny Slinger
On how artist Penny Slinger was first introduced to Tantric art, & the impact on her practice: “My first introduction was at an exhibition called ‘Tantra’ at the Hayward Gallery in 1971. The show was a total eye-opener for me… When I went to this exhibition, it was as if I’d come home. I felt that sense of recognition, of feeling such a resonance with the imagery, which seemed to come directly from Surrealism. All of this just felt so familiar, and yet it was a world I didn’t know anything about. It also made me understand abstraction for the first time. I’d never really been able to get a handle on abstraction because all the people at art school who were making abstract art never seemed to have a good reason for it.”
-Another Gaze
“In my work I try to capture the impossible the swirling mist of a dreamers mind, as artists we are day dreamers and our business is capturing the impossible, holding on to it and showing it to the world. But even as we think we have a firm grip, the dream shifts and changes due…
“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
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