The Hybrid Creatures in Leonora Carrington’s Paintings

• Main Author: 陳韻如
• Other Authors: 劉俊蘭教授
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39902428071954933263

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 美術學系 === 100 === My paper mainly discusses the paintings of Leonora Carrington, an England Surrealistic artist. The hybrids about animals, plants, and human beings have been playing an important role in Carrington’s paintings. With imagination, Carrington created hybrid creatures which have become a great tool for her to subvert the traditional patriarchal world and establish the motherhood world of the worship of the goddess. I start my paper from Carrington’s early paintings, the hybrid creatures of horses. From the artist’s family background, family relationships, the disputes with Ernest, stimulated by the war, assimilate different cultures in Mexico, the status of a mother, and the processes of becoming old, I try to investigate how she showed the appearances and the symbolic meanings of her works in different stages. I will explore her works with the images of the hybrid creatures and demonstrate how she used various species mixture to pass her feminist consciousness. Carrington created her world of goddess and focused on the relationships between people and nature. Her works show the unity and harmony of all things.