In telling the story of Dora Maar’s life, the curators at Tate Modern have chosen not to ignore the role played by Pablo Picasso
EVEN IN DEATH she could not escape him. Dora Maar’s relationship with Pablo Picasso lasted less than a decade—from 1935 until 1943—but when the photographer died in 1997, he dominated the headlines. Thedeclared her a failure, claiming that she “struggled to break free from Picasso’s powerful personality and pursue her own artistic ambitions”.
In the surrealist movement, photography was initially considered a medium too closely linked to reality to be useful, but Maar proved it could be used to deceive. One of her most famous works is “Portrait d’Ubu” , which was displayed in 1936 at the “International Surrealist Exhibition” in London. Its subject, an unidentifiable creature, is somehow both grotesque and gentle; sleepy-eyed and floppy-eared, its arms are curled up by its face.
In an advert for shampoo, for example, Maar transforms the model—her hair covered in soap suds—into a sort of mythical goddess . Elsewhere, a bottle spilled on its side does not pour forth shampoo but rich, glossy tresses . In one famous photograph a mannequin’s hand protrudes from the shell of a hermit crab, which sits on a beach below a stormy sky .
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