Dennis Hollingsworth

Masson's Tossa

I wanted to share another of one of Joan Panellas' loaned books(Joan operates a gallery here in Tossa, a blogpost on him to come soon) on Andr? Masson, drawings of Tossa done in the 1930's.

From the link above:

Although Masson is most often associated with Surrealism, his work evades definition through any one twentieth-century movement. In some ways, the identification with Surrealism has been confusing. Not only has it focussed attention on a partial aspect of his career, but has obscured profound differences between them. If it is true that some of his finest paintings were produced when he was closest to Surrealism, it is also the case that they were generated by deep tensions: as he wrote himself, "Painful contradictions are sometimes the source of the greatest riches".