Weird World: Surrealist Earrings
What Do Salvador Dali, Ottolinger, Magritte, and Faris Have In Common?
Juxtaposing elements that aren’t normally found together can produce startling effects—which is good news for jewelry. There’s no excuse not to be striking. When reality can seem skewed, it feels good to look at works of controlled chaos. We’ve rounded up our favorite offerings that feel the most surreal, with the paintings to match.
Featured In This Image: Completedworks earrings.
Completedworks Gold the Dishcloth of the Metropolitan Elite Earrings and Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory
A foray into the theory of relativity, or simply a painting inspired by a wheel of Camembert melting in the sun? Dalí insisted it was the latter. One of the most recognizable works from the Surrealist movement, pay homage to the decadence of diffusion with these gold dishcloth earrings. It’s all relative.
Featured In This Image: Shushu/Tong earrings.
Shushu/Tong White YVMIN Edition Single Ceramic Hand Earring and René Magritte’s The Dawn of Cayenne
Consider the dichotomy of form and function, the inherent value of scale. Or just wear this earring—sometimes all you need is a hand.
Featured In This Image: Ottolinger earrings.
Ottolinger Black Rubber Dipped Drop Earrings and Joan Miró’s The Tilled Field
Inscrutable, organic forms—a theme in Miró’s work upon moving to Paris, but also maybe manifesting in these earrings. Dip, dip, drop earrings.
Featured In This Image: Faris earrings.
Faris Gold Mismatched Plie Earrings and Yves Tanguy’s Indefined Divisibility
When it comes to earrings, think Tanguy. This work from 1942 seems almost contemporary, reminding us that ambiguity can feel timeless.
Featured In This Image: Vanessa Schindler earrings.
Vanessa Schindler Orange Single Chain Earring and Max Ernst’s Long Live Love
These earrings conjure a graceful silhouette, in tones and strokes uncannily similar to the figures in Ernst’s work. The art object is only as real as the one who wears it.
Featured In This Image: Emanuele Bicocchi earrings.
Eamanuele Bicocchi Silver Single Key Earring and René Magritte’s La Clef des Songes
Maybe this cerebral work by Magritte is just the legend we need to interpret our strange isolation dreams—or maybe it’s better to wear the key.
- Date: May 25, 2020
