Grace Pailthorpe: April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant)
Grace Pailthorpe: April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant)
Grace Pailthorpe: April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant)
Grace Pailthorpe: April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant)
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Grace Pailthorpe

April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant), 1940

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About the artwork
Embryos, uterine imagery and infancy are recurring themes in Grace Pailthorpe’s surrealist artworks from 1938 onwards. Pailthorpe titled her works after the date that they were created. She and her husband, fellow psychologist and artist Reuben Mednikoff, would take it in turns to analyse each other’s paintings, seeking to interpret the expression of ‘unconscious fantasy’ she believed they contained. She explained that ‘not a line or detail is out of place and everything has its symbolic meaning. This also applies to colour. Every mark, shape and colour is intended by the unconscious and has its meaning.’
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  • Artist Grace Pailthorpe
  • Artwork April 20, 1940 (The Blazing Infant)
  • Material FSC Certified paper and wood
  • Date of work 1940
  • Credit Original: Oil paint on hardboard 43.1 × 57.7 cm Tate. Purchased 2016 © reserved

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Grace Winifred Pailthorpe (1883 – 1971) was a British surrealist artist, surgeon, and psychologist. Born in Sussex, Pailthorpe began studying at the Royal College of Music in 1908 but left to study medicine at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. She travelled the world working as a surgeon until 1922, when she returned to Britain and began a career in psychological research, first focusing on criminal psychology, and later, with her husband Reuben Mednikoff, the psychology of art. Whilst living in Cornwall, they began creating their own Surrealist artworks, and in 1936 Pailthorpe contributed to the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London. She believed that surrealism and psychoanalysis were both means to personal liberation and the development of artistic creativity and freedom of expression.
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