Toyen: the unconventional surrealist rebel
Toyen was unconventional in many ways for a woman of her time and even by today's standards, both in her life and art. She rejected gender conformism, favouring a gender-neutral pseudonym over her birth name, referring to herself in Czech using masculine grammatical forms when speaking in the first person, and often dressing in masculine-style clothing.
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