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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Exquisite corpse. Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g., "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun."
Julien Tanguy (art dealer) (1825–1894), Parisian art supply and art dealer, and subject of three Van Gogh paintings Yves Tanguy (1900–1955), French surrealist painter Media
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.
Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Taken to its extreme it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices. [1] In his search for architectural reform the French architecte Viollet le Duc is the first to express this idea clearly ...