Emma Kunz

Born into a family of Swiss weavers in 1892, visionary artist Emma Kunz created pulsing, mandala-like grids which she regularly used as instruments of healing. Abstract, lush, enigmatic and illusionistic, each diagram was reportedly drawn by Kunz in a single sitting. The Emma Kunz Center hosts an online gallery of her astonishing work.

"The time will come when my pictures will be understood," said Kunz. "[They] are destined for the 21st century."

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Sileuta series by Ana Mendieta

Magic Realism/Surrealism

Leonora Carrington

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Petah Coyne

Condensation Cube

...make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is nonstable...
...make something indeterminate, that always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely...
...make something that cannot “perform” without the assistance of its environment...
...make something sensitive to light and temperature changes, that is subject to air currents and depends, in its functioning, on the forces of gravity...
...make something the spectator handles, an object to be played with and thus animated...
...make something that lives in time and makes the “spectator” experience time...
...articulate something natural...

-Hans Haacke, 1965

Edith Sitwell by Wyndham Lewis