She is gorgeous, disturbing, mocking, enigmatic, compassionate. She crushes, she blows, she wins. "Her Grace - angelic, her discourse - diabolical, her mind - a lioness ...." Julien Levy
It is often asked who she considers herself? An artist, an illustrator, a theatrical set designer and costume designer, writer?
There is only one answer to this question: I - Leonor Fini.
Self Portrait 1938
"Her art - it's a crack in the mirror, the edge of a dream of great importance, the meaning of which is dissolved with daylight. Light and shadow by turns, but always love"
Her biography and creativity - a vivid example of what live outside any framework and restrictions is possible. It intertwined Spanish, Italian, Argentinian, Slavic blood - dangerous genetic cocktail. Leonor Fini was born in Buenos Aires on August 30 in 1908. My father left the family when Leonor was a little girl and she and her mother returned to Italy in Trieste. Her formal education was given its independence and imperious character, fragmentary, but she loved to read, her uncle had a large library in Milan, and also traveled to Italy and Europe, visiting all the museums, paying attention to the artists who were then in fashion. This mannerist that later reflected in her own work shows the influence of the reproductions in Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, the German Romantics and the English Pre-Raphaelites.
Her talent was precocious. By the time she was 17, she has already written to order portraits and exhibited for the first time in a group exhibition in Trieste. In 1931, Leonor left her family and settled in Paris, where in the following year was the first exhibition in the gallery Bonjean. She skillfully writes etchings, drawing, watercolor, oil painting. In Paris Leonor acquainted with artists, including representatives of surrealism movement, such as Max Ernst, Eleanor Carrington, Paul Eluard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Salvador Dali. Leonor Fini often is referred to this genre in painting, she herself never considered myself this syurrealistkoy. Fini paint "which is not, but who would like to see", in her own words.
In the 17th century, Leonor Fini would be burned as a witch surrounded by cats. Woman with cat's eyes, she radiated Italian fury scandalous elegance, caprice and passion. Leonor never married - a real provocation for its time. Her name is not associated with the name of a certain man. It existed in itself, always. Some have classified her as a lesbian, but Feeney replied - "I have experience with women, but I do not want to be a lesbian." Others believed her bisexual, but the artist strongly rejected this definition. Feeney believed sexual freedom decisive factor in life.
"Any painting erotic. This eroticism not necessarily be subject to the product, it can be seen in the form of a letter of clothing, design, position of hands, the folds of cloth" - says Feeney. But even in its most extreme images, Fini had completely under control.
For forty years she lived in the same apartment on the rue de la Vrilliere between le Palais Royal and La Place des Victoires, diplomat Stanislao Lepri and Polish writer Constantin Jelenski, at the same time, until his death on January 18, 1996. Both men sought attention Leonor, competing with 23 cats. Cats in general is a totem Feeney. Women - cats, free as the wind .....
"Leonor Fini died at the age of 87, but it is impossible to imagine that she is old ......."
George Melly
Leonor Fini illustrated more than fifty books, including works by Charles Baudelaire, she deeply admired, just Paul Verlaine, Gérard de Nerval, Edgar Allan Poe. Meanwhile, she created the sets and costumes for the opera and the theater: Tannh?user at the Paris Opera (1963), the Council of Love Oscar Panizza, in the theater of Paris (1969), as well as for films: Romeo and Juliet - Renato Castellani (1953), Walking with love and Death - John Huston (1968). About Leonor Fini mnogozhestvo written books and articles, her work is included in the permanent collections of museums in the world izestneyshih. The largest collection of her work is in the gallery of CFM, which was created by a personal friend of Fini - Neil Zukerman.
Posthumously, one of her friends - Arlette Souhami, created and maintains a virtual gallery of the artist's works.
Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini
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