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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (1891-1976) Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention o

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)Max Ernst was born near Cologne, Germany. He studied philosophy and art at the University of Bonn and served in the German Army during First World War. Ernst joined the Dada movement in Cologne and in 1919 he began to work on collages and books composed of irrational images and fantastic landscapes. In 1922, Ernst moved to Paris where he became a central figure in the Surrealist Movement. In 1949he was arrested in France as an enemy alien and escaped to New York where he was welcomed by the New York art world and made fantastical paintings that reflected his sadness and horror about the destruction in Europe. After living in Sedona, Arizona, Ernst returned to France in 1953. As an artist, Ernst’s accomplishment was to develop a syntax using found visual material in a controlled, narrative manner. In pursuit of novel images he found a link, no matter how irrational ,between all the materials he employed. With frottage drawings and decalcomania, Ernst used non-traditional methods to make a work of art, frottage with scraping and decalcomania a transfer process. Both are versions of automatism or automatic writing in which the images are not planned, but discovered through the process. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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1919 Trophy, Hypertrophied 1919 Farewell My Beautiful Land of Marie Laurencin. Help! Help! 1919 Aquis Submersus 1919 Fruit of a Long Experience 1919 Two Ambiguous Figures 1919-20 Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person 1920 The Hat Makes the Man 1920 Murdering Airplane 1920 Here Everything is Still Floating 1920 Dada Gauguin 1920 The Small Fistule that Says Tic Tac 1920-1 The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses 1921 The Elephant Celebes 1921 Birds, Fish-Snake and Scarecrow 1921 Seascape 1921 Approaching Puberty or the Pleiads 1921 Young Chimera 1922 A Friends Reunion 1922 Oedipus Rex 1923 Castor and Pollution 1923 Holy Caecilie - The Invisible Piano 1923 Men Shall Know Nothing of This 1923 Histoire Naturelle 1923 The Equivocal Woman 1923 Pietà or Revolution by Night 1923 Ubu Imperator 1923-4 Woman, Old Man and Flower 1924 Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale 1924 Dadaville 1925 Mer et Soleil - Lignes de Navigation 1925 Paris Dream 1925 The Couple in Lace 1925 Eve, the Only One Left to Us 1926 The Numerous Family 1927 The Kiss 1927 Der grosse Wald 1927 Gulf Stream 1927 Forêt 1927 Forest and Dove 1927 The Wood 1927 Fishbone Forest 1928 Tree of Life 1928 The Sea 1928 Die Erwählte des Bösen 1929 Et les Papillions se Mettent a Chanter 1929 Snow Flowers 1930 Loplop Introduces Loplop 1931 Human Form 1933 Zoomorphic Couple 1934 The Entire City 1934 Une Semaine de Bonte 1935 The Whole City 1936 Landscape with Wheatgerm 1936 The Nymph Echo 1937 L’Ange du Foyer ou Le Triomphe du Surréalime 1937 The Angel of Hearth and Home 1940 Attirement of the Bride 1940 Spanish Physician 1940-2 Europe After the Rain 1941-2 Day and Night 1942 Surrealism and Painting 1943 Window 1943 Painting for Young People 1943-4 The Eye of Silence 1944 The King Playing with the Queen 1944 Moonmad 1944 The Table is Set 1944 Napoleon in the Wilderness 1945 Vox Angelica 1945 The Temptation of st. Anthony 1946 Phases of the Night 1947 Dangerous Correspondance 1947 Design in Nature 1948 Capricorn 1950 Parisian Woman 1951 The Weatherman 1956 L’oiseau Rose/Der Rosa Vogel 1958 Petite Feerie Nocturne 1958 Apres Moi le Sommeil 1960 Paysage Arizona 1960 Ursachen der Sonne 1962 The Garden of France 1965 Grand Ignorant 1967 Corps Enseignant Pour une École de Tueurs 1968 Nordlicht am Nordrhein 1970 Ein Mond ist guter Dinge

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Tentazione di S Antonio - Surreal is me?napoleonm in the desert - 1941

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b. 1891, Bruhl, Germany; d. 1976, Paris Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891, in Bruhl, Germany. He enrolled in the University at Bonn in 1909 to study philosophy, but soon abandoned this pursuit to co...
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Max Ernst

Max Ernst 1891 Brühl1976 Paris --> --> Max Ernst first studied art history, but began painting as an autodidact in 1910 when he met August Macke. His fascination for Macke's expressionist style did n...
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