one surrealist a day

Acte 1 by Georges Bousquet, 2012. Digital artwork.

Sat, 26 May 2012 20:23:37 -0400

Acte 1 by Georges Bousquet, 2012. Digital artwork.

I See You by Bernard Dumaine and Norma Minkowitz, 2012....

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:27:57 -0400

I See You by Bernard Dumaine and Norma Minkowitz, 2012. Exquisite corpse, ink, collage, coloured pencils, and ballpoint pen.

Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos, 1926 To slip into your shadow under cover of darkness. To...

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:31:30 -0400

Under Cover of Night

by Robert Desnos, 1926

To slip into your shadow under cover of darkness.
To follow your steps, your shadow at the window.
That shadow at the window is you, it is no one else, it’s you.
Don’t open that window where you’re moving behind the curtains.
Close your eyes.
I would like to close them with my lips.
But the window opens and the wind, the wind that bizarrely juggles the flame and the flag, surrounds my escape with its cloak.
The window opens: it is not you.
I knew it all along.

From the sequence To the One of Mystery (A la mysterieuse), 1926. Translated from the French by Bill Zavatsky.

Etcetera Etcetera by Jay Garfinkle, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 16...

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:31:20 -0400

Etcetera Etcetera by Jay Garfinkle, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.

Psi by Francis Picabia, 1929.

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:31:24 -0400

Psi by Francis Picabia, 1929.

Le ver luisant (The Glowworm) by Victor Brauner, 1933.

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:31:07 -0400

Le ver luisant (The Glowworm) by Victor Brauner, 1933.

Sunday Dalí: The Mysterious Sources of Harmony 1932-33. Oil on...

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:15:51 -0400

Sunday Dalí: The Mysterious Sources of Harmony 1932-33. Oil on canvas, dimensions unknown. Private Collection.

Shakespearean Equation: Twelfth Night Man Ray, 1948. Oil on...

Sun, 20 May 2012 10:20:53 -0400

Shakespearean Equation: Twelfth Night Man Ray, 1948. Oil on canvas.

Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants by Paul Klee,...

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:59:47 -0400

Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants by Paul Klee, 1908. Drawing on paper, 30.47 x 24.37 cm. Private collection.

Déjà Vu by Stanislav Stoyanov, 2011. Oil on canvas, 56 x...

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:03 -0400

Déjà Vu by Stanislav Stoyanov, 2011. Oil on canvas, 56 x 41 cm. Sold.

Submitted by the artist.

Monna Lisa Rumena by Nguyen Dinh Dang, 2011. Oil on canvas, 72.7...

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:31:11 -0400

Monna Lisa Rumena by Nguyen Dinh Dang, 2011. Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 91 cm.

Geoasphyxiation of the Equestrian Id by Mitch Nolte, 2012. ...

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:15 -0400

Geoasphyxiation of the Equestrian Id by Mitch Nolte, 2012. Painting.

I Want to Sleep With You by Joyce Mansour (1955) I want to sleep with you side by side Our hair...

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:09 -0400

I Want to Sleep With You

by Joyce Mansour (1955)

I want to sleep with you side by side
Our hair intertwined
Our sexes joined
With your mouth for a pillow.
I want to sleep with you back to back
With no breath to part us
No words to distract us
No eyes to lie to us
With no clothes on.
To sleep with you breast to breast
Tense and sweating
Shining with a thousand quivers
Consumed by ecstatic mad inertia
Stretched out on your shadow
Hammered by your tongue
To die in a rabbit’s rotting teeth
Happy.

Mansour, Joyce. “I Want to Sleep with You”, 1955 from Surrealist Love Poems edited by Mary Ann Caws.

Sunday Dalí: Memory of the Child Woman, 1932. Oil on canvas, 99...

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:28:07 -0400

Sunday Dalí: Memory of the Child Woman, 1932. Oil on canvas, 99 x 119.5 cm. Morse Charitable Trust on loan to the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Surrealism and Painting by Max Ernst, 1942. Oil on canvas, 195 x...

Sat, 12 May 2012 20:31:31 -0400

Surrealism and Painting by Max Ernst, 1942. Oil on canvas, 195 x 233 cm. Private collection.

Adrift by Erik Deutschman, 2009. Short-film, 16 mm, 4:41....

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:27 -0400

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Adrift by Erik Deutschman, 2009. Short-film, 16 mm, 4:41. Black and white with soundtrack.

Happy Birthday, Salvador Dalí!

Bitter Sweet by Nunzio Barbera. Collage, 44 x 36 inches.

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:30:45 -0400

Bitter Sweet by Nunzio Barbera. Collage, 44 x 36 inches.

The Ideal Mistress by Robert Desnos. Translated by Johannes Beilharz I was delayed that afternoon...

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:24 -0400

The Ideal Mistress by Robert Desnos. Translated by Johannes Beilharz

I was delayed that afternoon because I had brushed the teeth of a pretty animal that I’m patiently taming. It’s a chameleon. This endearing animal smoked, as usual, some cigarettes, then I left.

I met her on the stairs. “I’m mauving,” she told me, while I myself crystal at full sky I at her look that river towards me.

Then it locks and, maîtresse! You pitcherpin so that at nice vase I sit down if the paths tombs.

The staircase, always the staircase that library, and the crowds down there more abyss than the sun only clocks.

Lets get back up! But in vain, memories become sardine! hardly, hardly a button doodledoos. Fall, fall down! And here the verdict: “The dancer will be executed the following morning while doing a dance step with her gems sacrificed to the heat of her body: The blood of the gems, soldiers!”

And what then, the mirror yet! Mistress you black square, and if the clouds all at once forgetmenot, they mills in the ever present eternity.

Ministry of Disasters by Julien Pacaud, 2012. Collage.

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:31:06 -0400

Ministry of Disasters by Julien Pacaud, 2012. Collage.

Mary of Bethany by Danny Malboeuf, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x...

Mon, 07 May 2012 20:31:07 -0400

Mary of Bethany by Danny Malboeuf, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.

Meera Lester on netplaces.com:

Mary of Bethany was the sister of Martha and Lazarus, the followers of Jesus who lived in Bethany. The Gospel of John is the only gospel account that makes an explicit reference to Mary (sister of Lazarus) as the unidentified sinner who anoints Jesus’ feet at the house of Simon the Pharisee.

However, Danny writes:

I painted it pretty much spontaneously, so the literal meaning is shrouded in mists - for the time being. “Meanings” usually come at some later point, when I’m working on something unrelated.