Mexican surrealism

The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus: Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) ...The Magicians, coloured pencil drawing, unknown date

Portuguese artist Paul Neberra draws inspiration from surrealist painters and pop culture icons to create his remarkable paintings.

Sergio Mora

Frida Kahlo was a great Mexican painter, best known for her self-portraits. She combined traditional Mexican folk art with surrealism, making her paintings a symbolic form of self-expression. A self-taught artist, Kahlo hadn’t thought of painting as her first career choice until a tragic incident left her severely injured, changing her destiny. She spent most of her recovery time painting and later went on to choose this as a medium to convey her pain and suffering. Some of her most notable…

Acrylic, 100x110 cm Woodman, Moon and Drive Menders

Two new acquisitions display the artist’s interest in the occult.

In his series Mexico Surreal, Quebec photographer Benoit Paillé experiments with just coloured gels and flash to produce the most eclectic documentation of the country and its people, as well as th...

Lepidoptera

Part of the "Frida in Dialogue" Lecture Series offered in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular at the Museum of Fine Arts. Rick Lopez, Professor of History, Amherst College "Nationalism, Folk Aesthetics, and Radical Politics in the Art and Self-Presentation of Fri