Max Ernst
Artist, Sculptor, and Painter
Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist, dies at 100...the distinguished American anthropologist Franz Boas. He also became part of a circle of artists and Surrealists, including Max Ernst, Andre Breton and Sartre's future mistress, Dolores Vanetti. Vanetti, who shared his "passion for... In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, University of Paris, Tristes Tropiques, France, Philosophy, Edmund Leach, and Paris |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
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
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Philly.com | November 01, 2009
Art: An elegant little show
...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
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | October 30, 2009
Leonor Fini: surreal thing
...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
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Philly.com | October 25, 2009
Art: Arshile Gorky: Art and Anguish
...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
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | October 09, 2009
Abstract expressionist painter Charles Seliger, 83
...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
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Wikipedia | September 27, 2009
Leonora Carrington
...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
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | September 16, 2009
Museums offer challenging journeys for art lovers
...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
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Wikipedia | August 15, 2009
The Elephant Celebes
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
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | July 23, 2009
Kemper Art Museum announces fall schedule
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
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Wikipedia | February 07, 2009
The Wood (Max Ernst)
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
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Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism.
- Birth Date:
- April 02, 1891
- Death Date:
- April 01, 1976
- Place of Death:
- Paris, France
- Nationality:
- German
- Field:
- painting, sculpture, poetry
- Period:
- Dada, Surrealism
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