So I’ve chosen Eileen Agar as the surrealist that I will investigate on. She’s an english painter and she was born 1899 in Buenos Aires.Her family returned to England in 1911. Studied with Leon Underwood in 1924, attended the Slade School of Art in 1925 and 1926, and sludied art in Paris from 1928 to 1930. She saw her first Surrealist work in a gallery in Paris around 1929; met the poet Paul Eluard at that time. A member of the London group since 1933, her work was selected by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose for the 1936 Surrealist exhibition in London, and she was one of two English artists whose work was illustrated in the catalogue of the Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition the following year. After 1936, she experimented with automatic techniques and new materials, made collages and objects, and exhibited with the Surrealists in England and abroad. She was a member of the LONDON GROUP from 1933, and her work was selected by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read for the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in 1936. Mhmm kayy never heard of this International Surrealist Exhibition because never knew that such a thing existed but now I do and hmm that sounds pretty darn interesting.
So that’s a bit of her biography that I go-ogled up…pretty interesting how she went through all of that to attain her surrealism. Recently I was looking at one of her paintings and they were verrryy interesting. And I didn’t really get it at first and I’m struggling to upload one of the paintings hehe.
Unfortunately he work was interrupted by WWII, but she eventually got back to work and worked harder than ever. By the 1960s she was producing Tachist paintings with Surrealist elements. Many of her pictures are surreal and I’m trying to add it on the post.
Hopefully it works 
