Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini (1908-1996) was an Argentine surrealist painter.

She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and a Argentine father, who left the family, when she was still very young. She grew up in Trieste, then went to Paris to become a painter. There, she became acquainted with Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Salvador Dali. She painted portraits, e.g. of Jean Genet, Anna Magnani, Jacques Audiberti, Alida Valli, and Suzanne Flon. She also designed costumes and decorations for theater. Many of her later paintings deal with erotic phantasies and death.

In the 1970s, she wrote three novels and became friends with Jean Cocteau, Giorgio de Chirico, and Alberto Moravia.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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