Max Ernst

...which was a momentous interruption in his career as an artist. He stated in his autobiography, "Max Ernst died the 1st of August, 1914." Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator, (1923), Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France After...

In this article: Paul Eluard, Jimmy Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Loplop, Cologne, Dorothea Tanning, Joan Miro, and Paris

...in his arranged still lifes, and his intuitive recognition of surrealist juxtapositions. The surrealist tone of his work, recognized by Max Ernst and Andre Breton, is its most persistent quality. A prime example: In 1939, he obtained some...

In this article: Frederick Sommer, Art museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and University of Delaware

...throughout her life, she continued to exhibit to critical acclaim. Fini was often helped by her influential friends. The painter Max Ernst, who became her lover, introduced her to Andre Breton and the surrealists. She refused to kowtow to...

In this article: Leonor Fini, Paris, Jean Cocteau, Margot Fonteyn, Dora Maar, Andre Breton, and Brigitte Bardot

...blend of surrealist form and natural content. His surrealism was rooted not in fantasy or dreams like that of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst but in observation tempered by memory. It's not an alternative reality but a modified one. In...

In this article: Maxim Gorky, Arshile Gorky, Roberto Matta, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, and New York

...the 10th grade and found work tinting photographs at a studio in Manhattan. In 1943, he met Jimmy Ernst, the son of the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and through him began meeting and showing with the dominant figures of the Abstract...

In this article: Jimmy Ernst, Manhattan, Mark Tobey, NEW YORK, and Lyonel Feininger

...in New York. Some works are still hanging at his former family home now West Dean College in West Dean, West Sussex. Carrington saw Max Ernst's work in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London where she was immediately...

In this article: Leonora Carrington, Paul Eluard, Edward James, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, London, New York City, and Mexico

...exhibition will feature more than 60 works by 40 European and American artists. Among them are Jean Arp, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint...

In this article: Washington University, Giorgio Morandi, William Christenberry, and Destroy All Monsters

The Elephant Celebes (or Celebes) is a 1921 painting by the German Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. It is among the most famous of Ernst's early surrealist works and "undoubtedly the first masterpiece of Surrealist painting in the De...

In this article: The Elephant Celebes, Roland Penrose, Giorgio de Chirico, Zeus, Greater Sunda Islands, Cologne, Tate Modern, and Sulawesi

Opening Sept. 18 and continuing through Jan. 4 will be "Chance Aesthetics," featuring the work of Jean Arp, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth and Niki de Saint Phalle. The exhibition,...

In this article: Washington University, Jean Arp, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Bath Iron Works, Dieter Roth, Marcel Duchamp, and Jackson Pollock

The Wood (1927) is a painting by the German surrealist Max Ernst. Ernst was haunted by the atmosphere of forests and by the birds which inhabit them. Here, the herring-bone effect of the trees and the grainy sky reveal his technique of...

In this article: The Wood and National Museum of Wales