Composition (Cadavre exquis with Yves Tanguy and André Breton) 1938

Jacqueline Lamba and her surrealist pals, Yves Tanguy and André Breton, created this exquisite corpse drawing without knowing what the others were up to. It's all about how the linear and the graphic can come together, not really caring about making "sense". The drawing's built from distinct sections. At the top, there's some kind of architectural structure which then leads to an image, a bottle, and then what looks like dense, leafy foliage. Look at the bottle, you can almost feel the smooth glass and see the liquid inside. And that foliage at the bottom? It's so tactile, you could almost reach out and touch it. The juxtaposition of mechanical and organic, rational and irrational, is pure surrealist energy. This playful approach to form and meaning reminds me of Magritte, who also loved to mess with our perceptions and challenge our assumptions. Art's not about answers, it's about the questions.