THE LIFE AND ART OF JACQUELINE LAMBA SHED EXTRAORDINARY LIGHT ON A FEMALE SURREALIST'S PLACE IN THE WORLD OF HER TIME
About her painting In Spite of Everything, Spring, Jacqueline Lamba wrote: "The object is only a part of space created by light. Color is its non-arbitrary choice in transfiguration. Texture is the crystallization of this choice. The line does not exist; it is already form. Shadow does not exist; it is already light."
Light makes things visible, but too much light can blind. Jacqueline Lamba (1910-1993) died with the belief that "she would not be recognized as an artist because she was a woman, had been married to André Breton, had stopped painting Surrealism, and had a difficult personality." Why such a bleak view from someone who had lived obsessed with light?
