http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=PG2014.25&output=atom <![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> 2024-03-28T21:39:43-05:00 Omeka http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2932 <![CDATA[Casting the Runes]]> Painter and writer Leonora Carrington settled in Mexico in 1943, joining a group of fellow surrealist émigrés. She drew inspiration from a wide variety of subjects, ranging from ancient history and Celtic mythology to Mexican healing traditions. Informed by these sources, her otherworldly paintings often have elusive meanings. In Casting the Runes a golden bird protects an egg under the gaze of strange beings. At bottom, two hooded female figures seem to engage in an ancient ritual involving runes, perhaps to divine the future of the golden creature in their care.]]> 2017-04-27T17:34:50-05:00

Dublin Core

Creator

Leonora Carrington

Title

Casting the Runes

Date Created

1951

Spatial Coverage

76.7 cm x 45.4 cm (30 3/16 in. x 17 7/8 in.)

Identifier

PG2014.25

Medium

Oil tempera with gold metallic paint on wood

Description

Painter and writer Leonora Carrington settled in Mexico in 1943, joining a group of fellow surrealist émigrés. She drew inspiration from a wide variety of subjects, ranging from ancient history and Celtic mythology to Mexican healing traditions. Informed by these sources, her otherworldly paintings often have elusive meanings. In Casting the Runes a golden bird protects an egg under the gaze of strange beings. At bottom, two hooded female figures seem to engage in an ancient ritual involving runes, perhaps to divine the future of the golden creature in their care.

Rights Holder

Gift of Judy S. and Charles W. Tate, 2016

Date

Clayton Green, England, 1917 - 2011, Mexico City

Type

painting

Has Version

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/object_images/_2-22 Tate Images/By Acc #/PG2014.25.jpg

Requires

20434
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