LEPIDÓPTERA

Leonora Carrington
ABOUT THE
ARTIST
How she became mexican
Born in England 1917
Studied art in London, met Max Ernst who formally introduced
her into the surreal movement
Ran away to Spain because of the Nazi inavation
1940 she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of
her father
Escaped and found refuge at the Mexican embassy in Lisbon
In 1942 she arrived to Mexico and never left
 INFLUENCES
Celtic culture from home town
Boarding school in Florence, where he saw first
hand the work of the great Italian masters
Paris, Ernst and the surreal movement
Santander psychiatric hospital from where she
escaped
Hungarian photographer Emérico Weisz, "Chiki"
and her two sons
Source of inspiration in the imaginary of the
mexican and mayan culture
 HER
Between imagination and reality
STYLE
Surrealism
Great psychological significance
Merge between time and space 
Life and death
Shapes with very fine and delicate strokes
Color palette is made up of dark shades like
ocher, greenish and some blue shades stand out
CONTEXT
 TEXT
Title

Handwritten
statement
Repression against
students
Irony about
government's actions The Damp
Allusion to liberty
by John Donne
and human rights Actually a heartbreak

If your dare, be brave

Simile: vandals and

government
 GOYA!
Synecdoque
Hybrid animal with elements of the shield of
the UNAM
Puma
Condor
 COLOR STROKES

Energy without agression Chaos

 SHELTER

Arms raised for help

 THE WHITE GODDESS

Lepidptera in
real life