Carl Jung, Freud's protégé and an important influence on the Surrealists, purchased this work in 1929, when Tanguy was almost unknown.
Fungi? A glimpse of Giorgio de Chirico’s painting Child’s Skull (1914) through a gallery window so profoundly affected Yves Tanguy, it prompted him to pick up a paintbrush.
If I did try, I would risk very much closing myself in a definition that would later become like a prison for me. Airborne objects cast dark shadows, echoing the work of the earlier Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico. [Internet]. Od roku 1939 žil v USA. Joining the merchant marine in 1918, he travelled to Brazil, Argentina, Africa, Portugal and England. By Susan Davidson, Gordon Onslow Ford, Konrad Klapheck, Beate Wolf, Yves Tanguy, By Andre Breton (Author) / What is reality and what is shadow?
More vividly than any artist before him, Tanguy imagined and depicted the unconscious as a place. Through his friend Prévert, in around 1924 Tanguy was introduced into the circle of surrealist artists around André Breton. Hatásukra meglepő gyorsan kialakította saját festői stílusát, és részt vett a csoport minden hazai és külföldi kiállításán, sőt 1927-ben már sor került első önálló kiállítására is. In 1920 he was conscripted into the French Army in Tunis, where he met the poet Jacques Prévert who delighted in Tanguy's eccentricity and strange habits - from chewing his socks to eating live spiders. Tanguy do sebe vstřebal dojmy z tajuplného a bouřlivého bretaňského pobřeží s jeho menhiry, z keltských legend a nezměrných mořských dálek. Or that the standing yellow figure may represent a father, the cactus a mother, and the amorphous mass a child. I cannot, nor, consequently, want to try to give a definition, even a simple one, to what I paint. Chronology. The books and articles below constitute a bibliography of the sources used in the writing of this page. Yves Tanguy (* 5.Januar 1900 in Paris, als Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy; † 15.
compiled by William E. Duncan, MD, PhD. 1955-ben súlyos agyvérzést kapott és meghalt. About the Catalogue: Submit a Drawing: An online catalogue for scholars, educators, researchers, and art professionals with information about, and images of, more than 1400 drawings by or attributed to Yves Tanguy. Yves Tanguy was an American-French early Surrealist painter whose work was influential to many noteworthy artists and thinkers, includimg Isamu Noguchi, David Hare, and Roberto Matta. Tanguy's landscapes strike a balance between realism and fantasy. His bizarre rock formations were most likely inspired by the terrain of Brittany, where his mother lived. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Od poloviny 30. let se stalo jeho dílo známé i v mezinárodním kontextu. [2] His parents were both of Breton origin. In works such as Shadow Country (1927), he depicted groups of imaginary objects that resemble marine invertebrates or sculpturesque rock formations. For example, that it references the violence of World War I and expressed the mood of heightened anxiety that followed. This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 21:41. At the age of eight, his father died, forcing his mother to return to her home in Locronan, Finistere, where Tanguy was raised by various relatives.