Carrington went to London to visit her first International Surrealist Exhibition when she was 19 years old. ", "I am as mysterious to myself as I am to others. Carrington was impressed by the medieval and Baroque sculpture and architecture she viewed there, and she was particularly inspired by Italian Renaissance painting. Her writing style is surprisingly detached as she recounts in incredible detail the fractured experiences of her broken mind. In 1974 the artist published her best-known novel, The Hearing Trumpeta surrealistic story of an elderly woman who learns of her familys plan to commit her to a retirement home, which she discovers is a magical and strange place. Color serigraph on paper - Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California. Although her significant artistic output is frequently overshadowed by her early association with Ernst, Carrington's work has received more focused attention in recent years. Leonora Carrington Her work had grown lush with its own lore and androgynous beings. Carringtons views place motherhood and the creation and nurturing of life at the center of the experience of femininity. As her mother lay down on a marvelous machine designed to extract copious amounts of semen from various animals ducks, bats, pigs, urchins, and cows the machine brought her to overwhelming orgasm, turning her entire bloated and miserable body upside down and inside out. Carringtons grandmother is said to have claimed that her side of the family was descended from the Sidhe fairy people, and these beings are represented in the composition. Ulus Pants (1954) by Leonora Carrington;Iliazd, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. They read Celtic lore, Carl Jung, and Robert Graves. 6 Apr 1917. She managed to escape further psychiatric treatment and, through a marriage of convenience with Mexican diplomat Renato Leduc, secured passage to New York in 1941. Carrington began to carve out her own niche style that differs immensely from the Surrealists who followed Freuds teachings.