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Let’s take a look at a painting that feels less like a traditional artwork and more like a window into a dream. Created by French Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, Extinction of Useless Lights (1927) invites viewers into a mysterious landscape where logic takes a back seat and imagination takes the wheel.
Tanguy was a key figure in Surrealism, which explored dreams, the subconscious, and the strange imagery that exists beyond everyday reality. Interestingly, he was largely self-taught as an artist. After encountering the ideas of Surrealist leader André Breton in the 1920s, Tanguy quickly developed a visual style that would become unmistakably his own. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Extinction of Useless Lights By Yves Tanguy →
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Decades after completing his most famous painting — a depiction of a pipe inscribed This is Not a Pipe — Rene Magritte here revisits this iconography with The Shadows (1966). The same masculine- identified object covers ominously behind a tree, inspired by a Surrealist play with arbitrary scale, and what the artist would term the “logic“ of dreams.
Photographed in the San Diego Museum of Art.
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If you love the art of Os Gemos as much as I do, then you’ll want to know that Lehmann Maupin Gallery is currently hosting Cultivating Dreams, the gallery’s sixth solo exhibition with the renowned Brazilian artistic duo of twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo. Featuring 13 new paintings and a site-specific immersive installation, the exhibition invites fans into the vast and magical landscape of Tritrez, a dreamworld invented by the artists and developed in their work over the past three decades.
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Do you ever have trouble sleeping? I sure do, but it wasn’t always that way. For many years, I would brag shamelessly about how easily I could fall asleep (“as long as I’m not moving”), but those days are behind me now, as I have become a sufferer of fractured or fragmented sleep, where I might wake up six or seven times in one night. Needless to say, but you can see I am about to, it sucks wildly. If you find yourself in a similar situation, a product I recently started using, CBD Sleep Oil Drops from Sky Wellness may be of interest to you.
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