Surrealist artist Carrington dies

 sculptor, artist and writer - Carrington was known for his haunting, dreamlike sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealist artists, died at the age of 94 ansOfficiels Mexicans have said.

Born in the British Carrington arrived at the Mexico after it escaped from a psychiatric hospital and fled Nazi Europe.

She settled in the country, becoming a national treasure and the creation of works of art which depicts the mythical worlds.

And sculptures, she wrote articles, novels, essays and poetry exposed everywhere in the world.

"It was the last surrealist of high life," said his friend, the poet Homero Aridjis. "It was a living legend."

She was famous for works haunting, dreamlike, with emphasis on the strange ritual-like scenes with birds, cats, Unicorn-creatures, and other animals.

Life of the drama

She died on Wednesday after having suffered a respiratory illness, said of Mexico National Council for Culture and the Arts.

The life of MS Carrington was full of turns and twists and dramatic turns.

Born in Lancashire, England in an industrial aristocratic family in 1917 she took the painting from an early age.

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these are images which is the result of a mind obsessed to portray a reality that exceeds what can be seen "

end quote Mexico National Arts Council at 20 she moved to Paris, falling in love with the surrealist painter Max Ernst"who was 26 years old more than him.

He presented to major figures in the movement including El Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and the founder of the group, André Breton.

She held his first exhibitions of Surrealist painting in 1938 in Paris and Amsterdam.

After Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France in 1939, she fell into a deep depression, and committed to a psychiatric hospital in Santander (Spain).

She managed to escape and in Lisbon, she married Mexican poet and journalist Renato Leduc.

In 1942, they went to the Mexico where she settled in permanence, painter Frida Kahlo befriending and future winner of the Nobel Prize Octavio Paz.

She married her second husband, born in Hungary writer-photographer Emerico "chiki" Weisz, in 1946 and had two children.

"She created mythic worlds in which animals and human beings magical occupies the main stage, in which fusion cobras with goats and blind crows become trees", wrote the National Council for the Arts.

"These were some of the images is the result of a mind obsessed to portray a reality that exceeds what can be seen."