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Max Ernst : a retrospective : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Max Ernst (1891–1976) is a rarity, a German artist who impressed his French peers with his wit and imagination. He was also an artist who profoundly influenced more than one generation of American as well as European painters: only Picasso played a role as decisive as Ernst in the invention of modern techniques and styles. As a leader of the Cologne Dada movement immediately after World War I, Ernst created collages in which he combined mundane and banal materials, transforming them into magical, surprising images by means of what has been called "visual alchemy." Proto-Surrealist paintings he produced between 1921 and 1923, first in Cologne, then in Paris—where he moved in 1922—are signature works of the Surrealist movement. Powerfully appealing and mysterious, these pictures inspired the early efforts of Tanguy, Magritte, Dalí and other Surrealists. Even more emblematic of Surrealist style than the paintings are Ernst's collages, in particular his utterly unique and bizarre collage novels composed of disparate elements cut from nineteenth-century engravings. The paintings and collages alike are steeped in Freudian metaphor, private mythology, and evocations of childhood memories.

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Author

Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald (eds.)

Publisher

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588391513

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism