ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on women surrealists’ depictions of their own bodies, identities, and sexualities through erotic nature symbols, by looking at the work of two of the most important Nordic Surrealist artists, Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen, along with their international counterparts. Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen are among the most important avant-garde Nordic women artists of their time. In The Face of the Beach, Thoresen shows no body, unlike Kernn-Larsen, who in Women’s Uprising shows only bodies. The cases of Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen reflect that there is still a great need to research and reassess the work of women Surrealist artists.
