Leonora Carrington: artist's birthday commemorated with Google Doodle
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Version 0 of 1. The birth of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Monday’s Google Doodle. The surrealist painter, who was born in Lancashire but spent most of her life in Mexico, announced her intention to become an artist to her father at her coming out ball. Her first step down that road, she told him, would be to move to Paris with the painter Max Ernst, a plan that prompted a less than enthusiastic response. It was to be the end of her relationship with her father, but the beginning of a glittering career. Carrington became a hero in her adopted country, where she and Ernst counted Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí among their friends. During the second world war Ernst was arrested – first by the French, then by the Nazis – and Carrington fled over the border to Spain, suffering a breakdown and spending time in a psychiatric hospital after Ernst fled to America with help from art collector Peggy Guggenheim. He went on to marry Guggenheim, and Carrington escaped to Mexico. There she settled and went on to produce some of her most popular work, as well as writing numerous novels, essays and poems, supporting left-wing activists and co-founding the Women’s Liberation Movement in the country in the 1970s. |