Question 1

True or false: She was born into a wealthy British industrialist family and rebelled against it.

Accepted Answer

True. Her father was a wealthy textile magnate. She rejected her privileged upbringing to pursue art and surrealism.

Question 2

True or false: Carrington wrote a novel about a woman who turns into a horse.

Accepted Answer

True. Her surrealist novel 'The Hearing Trumpet' features a protagonist who transforms into a horse, blending magic and feminism.

Question 3

True or false: She claimed to have spoken with hyenas and considered them her spirit animals.

Accepted Answer

True. Carrington felt a deep kinship with hyenas, often painting them and claiming she could communicate with them as symbolic guides.

Question 4

True or false: She was briefly married to the painter Max Ernst.

Accepted Answer

False. Carrington had a passionate affair with Max Ernst, but they never married. Ernst was already married to another woman.

Question 5

True or false: She was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zurich.

Accepted Answer

False. Carrington was a surrealist, not a Dada founder. Dada started in 1916; she was born in 1917 and joined surrealism later.

Question 6

True or false: Carrington created a giant chess set with pieces representing occult symbols.

Accepted Answer

True. She designed a life-sized chess set where pieces were based on alchemical and mythological figures, reflecting her esoteric interests.

Question 7

True or false: Leonora Carrington once escaped a mental institution by bribing a guard with a painting.

Accepted Answer

True. During a breakdown in Spain, she bribed a hospital guard with a drawing to escape, later fleeing to Mexico with help from a friend.

Question 8

True or false: Leonora Carrington was the first woman to exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Accepted Answer

False. MoMA’s first solo show by a woman was Georgia O’Keeffe in 1946. Carrington had exhibitions there but not as the first.

Leonora Carrington Trivia Questions