NGA Assignment

Dada and Surrealism

image from www.metmuseum.org

George Platt Lynes

Birth of Dionysis

c. 1938

This photograph causes the viewer to take a closer look with the obscure detail in the leg. It appears to be a baby nested in a man's thigh as if it were in it's mothers womb. Upon closer inspection it looks like a photograph stuck to the mans leg to create the illusion of cut open skin.