The works of the self-taught French Surrealist Yves Tanguy were a breakthrough for pictorial Surrealism. His precise, limpid vision of a completely alien world with barely a reference to any recognisable terrestrial fauna and flora, populated instead with ‘bio-morphs’ that convey an almost unbearable sense of loneliness and desolation. The style and the depth-less horizons influenced Salvador Dali who adapted it with great success for his considerably more sensational paintings.
Yves Tanguy’s second marriage was to the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage (see Surrealist Women: Kay Sage) whose own unique paintings, although of the future and incorporating architectural elements, also presents a world devoid of humanity
So hard not to psychoanalyze, but I love this. The repetition of certain shapes and color patterns help focus the eye and keep you gazing at the lonely weirdness. I’m so enjoying these lessons on surrealism, particularly as someone who studied cubism and abstract expressionism but not surrealism.
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Thank you surrealism is quite a literary movement so thats why I know more about it than other more purely artistic movements, also it has some colourful characters
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For cubism, only Gertrude Stein truly tried to make it literary in its era.
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Yes and apart from great one liners she isnt the easiest to read, Hopefully my lack of art knowledge doesnt show through
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You’re doing a fabulous job of educating the masses. Especially me.
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Thank you, i keep thinking i am going to run out of material but other photographs and paintings keep on cropping up
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That’s what I thought would happen with noir.
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Sometimes you scratch the surface and you discover hold and have to keep on digging
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By the way i meant gold…unforgivable
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i’ve always loved Tanguy. His work might have been obscured by Dali’s fame. Great post btw 🙂
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Thank you for the like and follow, by the way I live in Ireland as well
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Yes, I like this. Bleak and weird. In a good way.
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Thank you I have a great fondness for Tanguy, it really a weirdness of the scorched earth variety, but it unique. Do you now know more about surrealist than you ever really cared to know?
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I didn’t know what I didn’t know! Which is the very essence of learning. And I thank you!
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Thank you I try in my way.
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Mini art appreciation class. Surrealism 101 – Professor Cake
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Thank you, don’t forget about the symbolist and decadent art as well.
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So is there one umbrella that encompasses them all?
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The umbrella of things cake likes
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Excellent. “So tell me Meg, how would you describe this work of art?” “Well, it’s definitely something Cake likes.” “Er…”
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That works
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I hope you are smiling!
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I am deadly serious
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Oh of course you are
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