Classroom Art

Item Description

Room 1 is presenting four original works for sale. Each is a delightful example of cadavre exquis, a technique invented by the surrealists. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that the technique was developed in the company of Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret and Pierre Reverdy. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, and Paul and Nusch Éluard.

Like the aforementioned gathering of irreverent iconoclasts, the denizens of Room 1, led by the inimitable Miss Harra, have leant their own winsome digits to the whims of Spiritus Mundi, thereby letting speak through their intricate designs a higher truth. Perhaps described by some as art brute or naive art, these works nevertheless, unsullied as they are by the preoccupations of adulthood, speak to wider truths and, perhaps, act as a balm to this turbulent age by evincing an unbridled optimism.

3. A black Hole galaxy WitH roBot bodies and water spiders in a heart garden.
Edition: Original Artwork
Dimensions: 30"H x 22"W
Medium: Mixed media on Arches 140lb, acid free archival print paper

A black Hole galaxy WitH roBot bodies and water sPiders in a heart garden, in line with the themes explored in A bunne ninja fActoRY at sunset in The butifuL craze lanD of art, poignantly interrogates our collective cultural apathy. Between the fragility and innocence, with its suggestion of being the "heart" of life, of the image of a naive Eden at the base of this exquisite work, and the vast cosmic import of the eponymous black Hole galaxy at the top of the image, lies the spectrum of our human condition. The children, with cutting insight, seem to ask us what lies between. Are the water sPiders indicative of delicate aquatic sea creatures, or of the thin threads by which the state entangles our everyday lives? Likewise, are the roBot bodies for convenience, or do they suggest a future lack of our biological agency as humans? The work seems to suggest the cosmos can either be a space into which we are jettisoned in a plume of atomic dust and/ or a heavenly, or nirvanic realm and that how that distinction plays out is in our hands.