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How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

  • Written by Sally Jane Brown, Curator, West Virginia University
How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealismDo the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out?Philadelphia Museum of Art

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement.

Surrealism is an avant-garde art...

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