"The Great Mother" and the Generative Body

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Reading a chapter in The Great Mother exhibition catalog by Art Historian Whitney Chadwick on the generative body and the surrealist imaginary by women artists (a rarity in the movement), who challenged the Surrealist male bias and refused to be romanticized.

In her chapter, she writes:

These ... bodies profoundly challenge culture assumptions ... about the roles of politics, love and art, the capacities of the generative human body, and the power of images to transform the world as we know it.

I can't help but think about artists, poets, writers (and friends) like Lily Illo, Claire Silver, Amy Woodward, Maya C. Popa, Ja’Tovia M. Gary, Ana María Caballero or Sasha Stiles (I'm missing many, add them in the comments), who are right this moment redefining what it means to "generate" Art like Life, embodied in their flesh, blood, sweat, tears and all, for us all to admire.

Portrait of Germaine Breton, in La Révolution Surréaliste (1924)