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Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother, Maureen (née Moorhead), was Irish. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur.
Educated by governesses, tutors, and nuns, she was expelled from two schools, including New Hall School, Chelmsford, for her rebellious behaviour, until her family sent her to Florence, where she attended Mrs Penrose's Academy of Art. In 1927, at the age of ten, she saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. Her father opposed her career as an artist, but her mother encouraged her. She returned to England and was presented at Court, but according to her, she brought a copy of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza (1936) to read instead. In 1935, she attended the Chelsea School of Art in London for one year, and with the help of her father's friend Serge Chermayeff, she was able to transfer to Ozenfant Academy in London (1935–38).
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Actors: Ximena Cuevas (editor), Lizet Benrey (producer), Lizet Benrey (director), Leonora Carrington (actress), Gabriel Weisz Carrington (actor), Jack Chernitsky (composer),
Plot: At her sanctuary in Mexico City, in a dreamlike atmosphere, we step back to visit the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington in the company of her son Gabriel Weisz Carrington. In a flux between reality and the intangible, mother and son communicate in the mundane and the esoteric. They appear and disappear in their surroundings on an extraordinary journey within the ordinary.
Genres: Biography, Family, Mystery, Short,Featuring rare archive footage, this short film follows Leonora Carrington’s cousin and journalist, Joanna Moorhead, exploring the artist’s story. Leonora Carrington was one of the most prolific members of the Surrealist movement. After rejecting her upper-class upbringing in northern England, Carrington embarked upon a relationship with Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and became central in the Surrealist circles of France and New York. After hanging out with celebrated names such as Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso, the artist then moved to Mexico where she spend the rest of her life painting, as well as making sculpture, tapestry, writing poetry and designing for theatre and film. This film is republished with kind permission by The Guardian. Leonora Carrington is now on show at Tate Li...
Descubre las obras de la pintura surrealista Leonora Carrington.
Leonora Carrington Moorhead, artista de los sueños, nació en Lancashire, Reino Unido, y murió en México, donde desarrolló la mayor parte de su obra. Criada en el seno de una familia adinerada, de muy pequeña quedó bajo los cuidados de la nana, quien le contaba los relatos de hadas que sembrarían en su fértil imaginación las visiones que plasmó a través de su pintura y escultura. Síguenos en: http://www.facebook.com/CanalOnceTV http://www.twitter.com/CanalOnceTV http://www.canalonce.mx
Leonora Carrington (born April 6, 1917 in Clayton Green, South Lancaster, Lancashire, England) is a British-born artist, a surrealist painter and while living in Mexico, a novelist. Her father was a wealthy industrialist, her mother was Irish. She also had an Irish nanny, Mary Cavanaugh, who told her Gaelic tales. Leonora had three brothers. Places she lived as a child included a house called Crooksey Hall. Educated by governesses, tutors and nuns, she was expelled from many schools for her rebellious behavior until her family sent her to Florence where she attended Mrs. Penrose's Academy of Art. Her father was opposed to an artist's career for her, but her mother encouraged her. She returned to England and was presented at Court, but according to her, she brought a book to read by Ald...
En el centenario de su nacimiento, Canal 22 presenta una producción que hace un recorrido por la vida y obra de la pintora surrealista, desde sus orígenes en Europa, hasta su llegada a México, así como los mensajes que encierra su obra, la pintura de caballete, el grabado, la escultura, la literatura y el textil.
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Edge Hill University ICE In Conversation About Leonora Carrington The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) is Edge Hill University’s practice-led and theoretically grounded interdisciplinary research forum which connects us with the digital and creative economy and with cultural institutions. Learn more about the intriguing history and artistic practice of Leonora Carrington, who became a national treasure in Mexico thousands of miles from her origins in Chorley, Lancashire. Join Joanna Moorhead (Journalist, co writer of ‘Surreal Friends’ and cousin of Leonora Carrington) as she discusses the life and work of Leonora with Francesco Manacorda, Tate Liverpool’s Artistic Director. More information: https://wp.me/P4lFMN-hj Filmed in the flagship £17million Creative Edge building, whic...
Excerpt from Ally Acker's full length documentary on the life and work of this enigmatic and infamous Surrealist artist and writer
At her sanctuary in Mexico City, in a dreamlike atmosphere, we step back to visit the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington in the company of her son Gabriel Weisz Carrington. In a flux between reality and the intangible, mother and son communicate in the mundane and the esoteric. They appear and disappear in their surroundings on an extraordinary journey within the ordinary. En un ambiente de ensueño en su santuario de la ciudad de Mexico, visitamos a Leonora Carrington en compañia de su hijo Gabriel Weisz Carrington. En un flujo entre la realidad y lo intangible madre e hijo se comunican en lo mundano y lo esotérico. Aparecen y desaparecen en su entorno en un viaje de lo extraordinario a lo ordinario. - Elena Luz Gomez KPBS Interview-http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/mar/19/festival-interv...
Featuring rare archive footage, this short film follows Leonora Carrington’s cousin and journalist, Joanna Moorhead, exploring the artist’s story. Leonora Carrington was one of the most prolific members of the Surrealist movement. After rejecting her upper-class upbringing in northern England, Carrington embarked upon a relationship with Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and became central in the Surrealist circles of France and New York. After hanging out with celebrated names such as Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso, the artist then moved to Mexico where she spend the rest of her life painting, as well as making sculpture, tapestry, writing poetry and designing for theatre and film. This film is republished with kind permission by The Guardian. Leonora Carrington is now on show at Tate Li...
Imma Ramos shares her insight on the fascinatingly surreal Leonora Carrington at the Tate Liverpool's latest exhibition.
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