Women can be artists too

Far from being silent and subservient muses to some of the most famous surrealist painters, discount women artists like Leonora Carrington were, pills in fact, try strong and independent-minded, according to Joanna Moorhead in today's Guardian. 

She relays the story of her search for Carrington, who is actually her cousin, 70 years after she eloped with the artist Max Ernst. They split up after the second world war at which point Carrington settled in Mexico. 

There she met other women artists who had also left Europe, finding inspiration in the Spanish painter Remedios Varo and the Hungarian photographer Kati Horna.

An interesting, if depressing, read in the sense that so few people remember, or have even heard of, any of these women.