Eileen Forrester Agar was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1924, she studied under Leon Underwood (1890–1975). She attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1925 to 1926. She also studied art in Paris from 1928 to 1930.
In 1928, they lived in Paris where she met the Surrealists André Breton and Paul Éluard with whom she had a friendly relationship. She was a member of the London group from 1933. Her work was selected by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read for the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in 1936.
Agar started to experiment with automatic techniques and new materials, taking photographs and making collages and objects.
In 1937, Agar spent days-off at Picasso and Dora Maar's home in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes). In 1940, she was present in many surrealist exhibitions in Amsterdam, New York, Paris and Tokyo. After the World War II, she had started a new productive area. By the 1960s she was producing Tachist paintings with Surrealist elements. She died in London.
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Eileen Agar was a Surrealist artist who also worked in 3D with a variety of materials like the plaster, textiles and feathers which she used to create the Angel of Anarchy. Surrealism is a movement which began in the 1920s. In Surrealism the artist works with unexpected and often fantastic visual images that do not necessarily make sense to the viewer.
This reminds me of some African sculpture I've seen.
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Agar and her husband had spent their summer holiday near Toulon on the Mediterranean coast. Agar had been an avid beachcomber since 1930, composing works from the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore. The collage features a real starfish, pinned on with a thumbtack, together with collaged and drawn elements. The starfish is the pivot of the composition, its shape providing the perfect link between the geometric and organic elements of the collage.
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