Avant-garde

A hundred years ago the surrealist movement was born. That time was influenced by political, economical, cultural and major ideological upheavals. At that time there were sparrings between men and women against the society of their time. At the top, there were the surrealists and their insurrectionary aim - in the inside and the outside - and spread all around the world. However since the death of André Breton en 1966 : what remains of surrealism ? What is its meaning in the current world?

Like the song "Woman is the future of man" sung by Jean Ferrat with the lyrics by Aragon, woman is often associated to the "fertilizing origin" myth, like in the Pre-Columbian tradition with the Pachamama.
Alpha and Omega is an illustrated tale composed of twenty lithographs done with a soft lead pencil by the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and which reinterprets in a very personal way the biblical genesis of the first man, Adam (Alpha) and the first woman, Eve (Omega).
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and omega is the last one. The association of these two letters represents metaphysically "the principle and the creation", symbolically "the beginning and the end" (cf Book of the Revelation to John, "I am Alpha and Omega") and literally a complete table of reading "from A to Z".

In 1910, Vassily Kandinsky was ordered to explain the goal of Abstract art of which he was one of the precursors and which was criticized. His answer was a manifesto: « Spiritual in Art»  where the artist establishes that every man is inhabited by an inner necessity: to show human soul with forms and colors.
A century later, Eliane Burnet, in an allusion to Kandinsky, has the courage to bring an ontological and spiritual justification to contemporary art.