Wednesday weirdness, courtesy of the late, great Surrealist painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer and poet Dorothea Tanning, born 111 years ago today. “Anything that is ordinary and frequent is uninteresting to me,” the Illinois-born artist once said in a statement that aptly sums up her proclivity for all things uncanny and unusual. Much of Tanning’s endlessly energetic work was influenced by her dreams, revealing her head to be full of faceless figures, windswept women in strange domestic settings, and rather unappetising fishy feasts.
