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French and American. Known for. Painting. Movement. Surrealism. Patron (s) Pierre Matisse. Indefinite Divisibility, 1942; Oil on canvas. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (/ ˌiːv tɒ̃ˈɡiː /; French: [iv tɑ̃ɡi]), was a French surrealist painter.
Yves (French pronunciation:; in English as / ˈ iː v / EEV) is a common French male given name of uncertain origin, either from Celtic as in the Gaulish name Ivo (Iuo) and compound names Ivorix (Iuo-rigi or Iue-ricci) and Ivomagus (Iuo-magi), all derived from the Gaulish term for yew, iuos or īuos, [1] or from Germanic, derived from Proto-Germanic *īwaz, *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr ...
The title of the painting comes from the influence of the Atlas Mountains in Tanguy's work, which he referred to as "castles". [4] The canvas has been described as depicting a desolate lunar landscape that shows, "a world that only looks as if it were real but appears as a coherence of facts put together with unshakable necessity...and it realizes a kind of world experiencing with correlative ...
According to Nathalia Brodskaïa, Mama, Papa is Wounded! is one of Tanguy's most impressive paintings. Brodskaïa writes that the painting reflects his debt to Giorgio de Chirico – falling shadows and a classical torso – and conjures up a sense of doom: the horizon, the emptiness of the plain, the solitary plant, the smoke, the helplessness of the small figures.
Eva Tanguay. For the French surrealist painter, see Yves Tanguy. Eva Tanguay (August 1, 1878 – January 11, 1947) was a Canadian singer and entertainer who billed herself as "the girl who made vaudeville famous". She was known as "The Queen of Vaudeville" during the height of her popularity from the early 1900s until the early 1920s.
t. e. Pronunciation in Wikipedia should be transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), except in the particular cases noted below. For English pronunciations, broad diaphonemic transcriptions should be used; these are intended to provide a correct interpretation regardless of the reader's accent.
P. The Palace of the Windowed Rocks. Categories: French paintings. Paintings by artist.
At 4 O'Clock In The Summer, Hope was the subject of a short documentary film, which ran as the 190th episode of the British television series 100 Great Paintings. [4]Author Laurie Wilson has argued that the title of Alberto Giaccometti's 1932 sculpture Palais de Quartres Heures (which is most often translated as Palace at 4 A.M.), is derived from the title of Tanguy's painting since Tanguy had ...