Luncheon In Fur Meret Essay

Like many artists Meret’s work was not originally recognized for what it was worth, infact it’s amazing how soon her work took off considering that she was a female artist of of the 20’s in a field that was so consistent of men. Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany on October 6th 1913 and died on November 15th of 1985 of a heart attack. She came from a family background of psychoanalysts, which gave her a different level than the other surrealists in how her work affected people and their mind. Oppenheim’s work is both dream and nightmare like, she once said that "It's the artists who do the dreaming for society." (Oppenheim), it was also beautiful and sometimes gory, which is why she was such a big staple in the surrealist movement. Even though in the beginning she had to work extremely hard to persuade the surrealists to let her in the group because it was almost strictly men before she became a part of it.
Meret Oppenheim is best known for her piece called Object or also known as Luncheon in Fur it is also the piece that she got the most recognition for. Normally
Some of her works even include all of those themes like Spring Banquet/Cannibal Feast. These are the things that make her art stand out so much because during her time these kinds of things were not common and often looked down upon by those outside of the art world for its unusualness and provocative nature. The statements that she made with her art was also looked down upon. For example she confronted the conventional roles of what women need to be and needed to do which is why she is widely considered part of the feminist movement and Oppenheim never outright declined this but she was more concerned with just removing gender from art in whole. That it should not be considered more masculine than it is feminine for what it