México and Surrealism: Leonora Carrington and fantastic labyrinth of Xilitla

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  • Giulia Ingarao Universidad de Palermo Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2008.v0i29.4433

Abstract

In 1965 Leonora Carrington painted a mural at El Castillo, near the surrealist architectural dream built by Edward James in the Huasteca potosina jungle (Xilitla, Mexico). Carrington’s meeting with the eccentric English patron of the arts proved crucial for the development of her art and inspired the only mural she ever carried out: La Minotaura. The Minotaura belongs to the many hybrid and strangely disquieting creatures which inhabit the painted world of Leonora Carrington. This essay investigates the complex work by the English artist who had been living in Mexico since 1942. It especially analyses the female universe created in Carrington’s work, revealing images coming from a shared and archetypal chaos.

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Published

2018-03-20

How to Cite

Ingarao, G. (2018). México and Surrealism: Leonora Carrington and fantastic labyrinth of Xilitla. Boletín De Arte, (29), 273–284. https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2008.v0i29.4433

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Research Paper