Man Ray at the PEM

This painting now means so much more to me as I know that Man Ray was using Lee Millers lips for his heartfelt inspirations

Today I went to Salem Mass and visited the PEM, Peabody Essex Museum.  It was much more intense that I had remembered or imagined.
http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/130-man_ray_lee_miller_partners_in_surrealism
The exhibit was amazing. Man Ray is an important artist for me especially during the times when I was in photography and when I am working on anything I remember his diversity and technical approach to creating his artistic style.
http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/130-man_ray_lee_miller_partners_in_surrealism
The lips were his lovers lips Lee she also became a photograher after their love had tapered off.  He was a much older man and they worked together as Model and photographer and then she began her own photography career.
Went to an Army Navy store, classic Comic store and a restaurant called Rockerfellers.
I can add more later. The exhibit had lots of letters and pictures from both Lee Miller and from Man Ray.  The letters of love from Man Ray to Lee Miller touch my heart.  He was in love with her and she had chosen to move on in her life to start her own studio and then to go into the war and become a wartime photographer. In the notes about Lee it said that she was emotionally stressed with the work at the warfront and eventually discontinued it. It also mentioned how she battled depression.  This scared me. I imagined Lee sad and isolated in her life and Man Ray wanting to save her.  He was most likely a hero for her but she needed to be her own boss.

I have seen one of the Man Ray photos at MFA Modernist photography exhibit.

http://educators.mfa.org/objects/detail/56857?related_people_text=Man+Ray/embed>

http://educators.mfa.org/objects/detail/189480? keyword=Man+Ray&curGallery=0&search=Submit&sort=&culture=&classification=

http://educators.mfa.org/objects/detail/189667?keyword=Man+Ray&curGallery=0&search=Submit&sort=&culture=&classification=

Outside the PEM