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Voltagem - Dorothea Tanning
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A surrealist composition by Dorothea Tanning featuring a faceless figure with a braided head, rendered in a dreamlike, atmospheric style.
Dorothea Tanning, a major figure in the development of American Surrealism, produced Voltagem in 1971. This work displays her characteristic approach to the human form, where anatomy is subject to fluid, dreamlike distortion. The composition features a seated female figure whose head is replaced by a braid of hair, suggesting a transformation of identity or a rejection of conventional portraiture. Her hands are held in a gesture of quiet contemplation, while a small, detached ocular form floats near her fingertips, introducing an element of uncanny observation. The background consists of soft, undulating folds that echo the texture of the fabric draped over the figure. Tanning uses a muted palette, relying on subtle shifts in tone to model the flesh and the surrounding drapery. The lighting is diffuse, creating a sense of interiority and stillness. Unlike the more aggressive or overtly political works of her contemporaries, Tanning often focused on the psychological interior, using the body as a site for metamorphosis. The title, Voltagem, implies a hidden energy or tension within the scene, contrasting with the calm posture of the subject. Throughout her career, Tanning moved away from the rigid, academic style of early Surrealism toward a more personal, fragmented aesthetic. This piece captures that transition, showing her ability to render realistic textures while simultaneously subverting the logic of the physical world. The precision of the brushwork, particularly in the rendering of the skin and the braided hair, demonstrates her technical skill. By removing the face, Tanning forces the viewer to engage with the body as a vessel for emotion and mystery, rather than a fixed identity. This print captures the specific tonal qualities of the original oil painting, preserving the atmospheric depth that defines Tanning's mature work.
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Voltagem - Dorothea Tanning
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
Tanning published her first poetry collection at ninety-four and her second at a hundred and one. She called herself the oldest emerging poet. She had spent the previous seven decades as a painter and sculptor.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
Tanning published her first poetry collection at ninety-four and her second at a hundred and one. She called herself the oldest emerging poet. She had spent the previous seven decades as a painter and sculptor.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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