The painting that put the first lady of surrealism on the map Dorothea Tanning presents herself as an artist-sorceress in this 1942 self-portrait, with the power to make over the world through imagination and dreams. Costume has always been a means of changing character but Tanning ups the ante, with her skirt made from amorphous nude bodies.
The painting that put the first lady of surrealism on the map Dorothea Tanning presents herself as an artist-sorceress in this 1942 self-portrait, with the power to make over the world through imagination and dreams. Costume has always been a means of changing character but Tanning ups the ante, with her skirt made from amorphous nude bodies.
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