Photo By Gail
Tol-Pedn, Penwith, near artist Jonn Tunnard’s home on the Lizard Peninsula, is the most southerly point of the British mainland. Its concrete landmarks appear to have inspired this abstract landscape. Tunnard is said to have turned three somersaults at the opening of his exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s London Gallery in 1939. He was among a number of British artists attracted to surrealism between the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936 and the outbreak of the Second World War, when he served in the Coastguard Cornwall. This homage painting was created in 1942.
Photographed in the Tate Modern Museum in London.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Photo By Gail
Max Ernst (born in Germany on April 2, 1891) was a prolific artist and a primary pioneer of both Dada and Surrealism. Seriously, his life and career are so mind-blowing they almost take too long to talk about. In Ernst’s painting Napoleon in the Wilderness (1941), a semi-nude female figure (representing his mistress at the time, Leonora Carrington) holds a strange, whimsical trumpet while almost encased inside one of several organic rock and coral formations amide a decaying fantasy landscape.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Max Ernst, Napoleon in the Wilderness →
Like this:
Like Loading...
Bringing You The Best Of Art, Design, Pop Culture and Lifestyle Since 2004!
