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Blue Mom - Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning's 'Blue Mom' is a surrealist oil painting featuring distorted figures and a muted colour palette, creating a dreamlike and unsettling atmosphere.
Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was an American painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism, and she later developed a more personal and abstract style. Tanning was married to the Surrealist artist Max Ernst for 30 years. She explored themes of identity, sexuality, and the subconscious in her art. 'Blue Mom' presents a distorted, dreamlike scene. A large, blue-toned figure dominates the composition, its features obscured and abstracted. A smaller, pale figure clings to the larger one, creating a sense of dependence or protection. The colour palette is dominated by blues and browns, with touches of yellow, creating a muted, unsettling atmosphere. The brushwork is loose and expressive, adding to the painting's sense of unease and ambiguity. The composition is unbalanced, with the figures positioned off-centre, further contributing to the painting's surreal quality.
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Blue Mom - Dorothea Tanning
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Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
Tanning published her first poetry collection at ninety-four and her second at a hundred and one. She called herself the oldest emerging poet. She had spent the previous seven decades as a painter and sculptor.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
Tanning published her first poetry collection at ninety-four and her second at a hundred and one. She called herself the oldest emerging poet. She had spent the previous seven decades as a painter and sculptor.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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