Art History Guardian Angels Dorothea Tanning was born August 25, 1910 in Galesburg Illinois. She was an artist from a very young age, showing interest in her free time, as she worked first in a library, then doing school publications, and finally a booth at Chicago’s World Fair in 1931. She moved to New York and found work as a freelance commercial artist. By 1936, her career had begun, discovering dada and surrealism at the Museum of Modern …showed first 75 words of 934 total…

…showed last 75 words of 934 total…angels? This should be left up to the individual viewer. In a world of fanciful creatures and settings like this one that Dorothea Tanning created, a viewer can be lost in its ambiguous meaning; I think it’s futile to speculate about what a painting from 1946 meant originally to the artist. Instead, a viewer should look at it with their own perception, and take from it what they can. What does it mean to you?