Immortality - Max Ernst
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This oil on canvas painting by Max Ernst, titled 'Immortality', showcases the artist's surrealist style with dreamlike imagery and illogical juxtapositions. The composition features figures arranged in a complex scene, set against a backdrop of a dense forest and geometric structures.
Max Ernst, a German-born artist (later naturalised as an American and French citizen), was a leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements. His experimental approach and exploration of the subconscious produced a diverse body of work, including painting, collage, sculpture, and graphic arts. Ernst's art often features dreamlike imagery, illogical juxtapositions, and a fascination with the absurd. 'Immortality' presents a complex, dreamlike scene. The composition is divided into distinct zones, with figures arranged in a seemingly illogical manner. In the foreground, a group of figures, including children and a man in a suit, are positioned near a geometric structure that resembles a table or altar. The background is dominated by a dense forest, rendered in shades of green and blue, with glimpses of buildings and other figures in the distance. The painting's palette is muted, with a mix of earthy tones and cool blues, creating a somewhat unsettling atmosphere. The figures are rendered with a degree of stylisation, their features simplified and exaggerated, contributing to the overall sense of unease and mystery.
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- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
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Immortality - Max Ernst
Artist Biography
Max Ernst
He was born in Brühl, near Cologne, and studied philosophy and art history at the University of Bonn. He had no formal art training. He saw a Picasso exhibition, joined the Rhineland Expressionists, served in the German army during the First World War (artillery), and emerged with what he described as a compulsion to find something beyond rational thought. Dada gave him the method. Surrealism gave him the framework.
His collage novels, made from cut-up Victorian engravings reassembled into dreamlike narratives, are among the most original works of the twentieth century. Une Semaine de Bonte (A Week of Kindness, 1934) is a series of 182 collages arranged in five chapters, each associated with an element and a day of the week. The imagery is violent, erotic, and funny. The source material, melodramatic Victorian illustrations, is treated with deadpan seriousness.
He married four times. His second wife was Peggy Guggenheim (briefly). His fourth was the painter Dorothea Tanning. He moved to America during the war, lived in Sedona, Arizona, and then returned to France. He died in Paris in 1976, the night before his eighty-fifth birthday.
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