Surrealism is an avant-garde art movement that developed alongside Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis between World War I and World War II. Leonora Carrington and Surrealism Down Below by Leonora Carrington, 1940, via Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco These interests paved the way for her to discover Surrealism and, despite disapproval from her family and community, pursue life on the fringes of high society as a Surrealist painter. The Surrealist painter’s early love of English writers like Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter, who wrote fantastical tales about animals, influenced her throughout her life. Photo of Leonora Carrington, undated, via Leonora Carrington Foundation As a teenager, Carrington was expelled from two different private schools, as she was more interested in studying fantasy and fables than participating in debutante balls and religious activities. Not long after Leonora Carrington was born into an upper-class English family in Lancashire, she began boldly rebelling against the stiff culture and societal expectations prescribed to privileged young women like her. 1937-38, via Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Leonora Carrington Rebelled Against Her Traditional Upbringing Self Portrait by Leonora Carrington, c.
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