#andre-breton — Public Fediverse posts

Organizing Pessimism | Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/andre-breton-nadja-magic-art-cavalier-perspective-pessimism/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KX5XXX0CJ3J4VPFNA3DTXX61&_kx=xUYuEyKLvfzMmBaejgRY9T66ygHozgEpktNNW_FHWQc.U5D8ER
#AndréBreton

Alejandro Jodorowsky, el artista inmortal: “Pienso en la muerte desde el día en que nací”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/eps/2026-01-16/alejandro-jodorowsky-el-artista-inmortal-pienso-en-la-muerte-desde-el-dia-en-que-naci.html

TIL Frida Kahlo had an affair with Trotsky while he was staying with her and Diego Rivera...

and around the same time, Andre Breton came to Mexico City, where they composed a manifesto for #art against fascism, capitalism, and Stalinism : https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/rivera/manifesto.htm

(and neither Frida nor Trotsky signed it; it's attributed to Trotsky and Breton, but it was Rivera and Breton whose names are on it)

and it's a glorious document that Breton took back to Europe to open chapters of the International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_for_an_Independent_Revolutionary_Art>

but it didn't last very long.

In the spirit of continuous revolution, is it time for the Next International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art ?

#surrealism #revolution #Mexico
#FridaKahlo #Trotsky #AndreBreton #DiegoRivera

On 19 February 1896, #AndréBreton, #anarchist, #antifascist and founder of surrealism, was born. (h/t WCH)

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Surrealism and the Americas
Special Issue on the Hopi Notebook (of Andre Breton), guest edited by Katharine Conley
#Surrealism #AmericanArt #Hopi #ArtHistory #AndreBreton
https://jsa-asu.org/index.php/JSA/issue/view/9

That time Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud
(Paul Gallagher / Dangerous Minds)

Because of their interest in dreams and the unconscious, it may have seemed obvious that Dali and Freud would have made natural friends, but Freud’s taste in art was strictly traditional, and he was wary of the Surrealists after a run-in with André Breton in 1921.

#Dali #Freud #Surrealism #AndréBreton

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/that_time_salvador_dali_met_sigmund_freud

Andre Breton, writer, poet, anti-fascist, and the founder of Surrealism, born on this day in Tinchebray, France in 1896.
#AndreBreton #BOTD #Surrealism

“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”

(Solarized portrait of Andre Breton by Man Ray, circa 1930)

Surrealist Poet and Theorist Andre Breton

Untitled (Decalcomania, 1957)

#AndreBreton #Surrealism #collage

Surrealist Poet and Theorist Andre Breton

Sans Titre (Untitled)
(gouache decalcomania and collage on paper)

#AndreBreton #Surrealism #collage

André Breton ~ Sphinx Pour Elisa, 1947
#Surrealism #AndreBreton