Max Ernst, original art works

par Philippe  -  24 Août 2017, 08:20

Max Ernst, original art works

Summer 2017 exhibition at the Chave art gallery, 13 Isnard street, 06140 Vence, phone : 04.93.58.03.45, admission free.

 

A strong line has always existed between the Max Ernst art work and the surrealists and the dadaists movements. In 1911 Max Ernst meets some members of the Blaue Reiter movement and he exhibits with them in Berlin. The same year he goes to Paris and live in Montparnasse where he meets Apollinaire. Max Ernst will serve in the artillery during World War I and the war experience with his cruelty will incite him to join the Dada movement founded in Zürich. This movement rejects the political, the ideological and the esthetic conventions. It uses the derision and the extravagance for inciting the people to think. In 1920 Max Ernst founds the Zentrale W / 3 and writes the article "Lazy people unite" and publishes it in the Chamade review. The same year he provokes a huge scandal in Cologne with his collective collage entitled "Fatagaga".

Max Ernst "Festin"
Max Ernst "Festin"

Max Ernst "Festin"

Since 1920 Max Ernst brings himself near again the surrealism movement. He invents the rubbing technical who consists to let a pencil running on a paper surface or on the ground. With this technical Max Ernst makes appear imaginary faces. This technical looks like the Andre Breton automatic writing where the conscious and the will don't play a part. This writing emancipates itself from the reason and the thinking. Max Ernst and the Spanish painter Joan Miro will invent after a new technical : the scratching. The scratching technical consists to scratch all the pigments on the canvas. Max Ernst will continue to make some collage and write some books and in 1953 he will receive an award at the Venice Biennial but he will be rejected by the surrealists because he has accepted this award.

Max Ernst "Festin"

Max Ernst "Festin"

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