Visual artist and Art Muse lecturer Regina Mamou will take a deep-dive into the life and work of the two French artists Dora Maar and Claude Cahun. Born just over a decade apart, Maar and Cahun both worked and participated in the Surrealist art scene in Paris. Maar's prolific career, which is often overshadowed by her romantic relationship with Pablo Picasso, explored the unsettling aesthetics of Surrealism via photography, and later, emotionally evocative paintings. While Maar worked across mediums, Cahun used photography to explore gender and sexual identity. Decades after her death in 1954, her images have became seminal in the study of queer theory. Together, these two very different artists will provide a different view and greater understanding of the diverse interests of the French Surrealists.