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Listed below are sources that I have referred to while blogging:

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-ernst-max.htm

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/max-ernst/self-portrait-1909#close

http://www.surrealism.org/ernst.html

http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/listquotes/author/max-ernst

Second French Period

After living in the United States, Ernst moved back to France in 1953 where he lived in Paris for the rest of his life, 1976.

Colorado of Medusa, Color Raft of Medusa, 1953

A Maiden, A Widow and A Wife, 1956

Little Girls Chasing Butterflies, 1958

The Garden of France, 1962



The Return of the Beautiful Gardener (Homage to Woman), 1967



Birth of A Galaxy, 1969



Commonplaces, Everyday, 1971



Some Animals Are Illiterate, 1973

The World Map Makes A Mockery, 1975

"All good ideas arrive by chance."

"...you can drink the images with your eyes"

"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation."

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”

- Max Ernst

American Period

From 1941 to 1953 Max Ernst lives in the United States, first NYC and then Sedona, AZ. Surrealism had inspired a movement entitled Abstract Expressionism and below are select works from those years:

The Antipope, 1942

Composition, 1943

Sculpture
The King Playing With The Queen, 1944

Cocktail Drinker, 1945



Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945



Design in Nature, 1947

Feast of the God, 1948

Untitled, 1949

Select Works continued from 1922 to about 1941, the time Max lived in Paris and Surrealism was prominent

Castor and Pollution, 1923

Long Live Love, 1923

Woman, Old Man and Flower Femme, 1923

Gala Eluard, 1924

Eve, The Only One Left To Us, 1925

Paris Dream, 1925

The Virgin Spanking The Christ Child Before Three Witnesses:
Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926

They Have Slept in the Forest Too Long, 1926

Forest, 1927

Max Ernst Showing a Young Girl the Head of His Father, 1927

Loplop Introduces Loplop, 1930

Europe After the Rain, 1933

The Entire City, 1935

Barbarians, 1937

Epiphany, 1940

The Robing of the Bride, 1940

Day and Night, 1941



Europe After the Rain II, 1941



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FROTTAGE:

 

French word. Technique of obtaining an impression of a raised, incised, or textured surface by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing it with a soft pencil or crayon. Brass rubbings taken from gravestones and funerary monuments are obtained in this way. Max Ernst pioneered the technique in the 20th century. It was much favoured by the Surrealists, since it provided a point of departure for a painting or collage expressing the imagery of the subconscious."frottage." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc., 1994-2010. Answers.com 22 Nov. 2011. http://www.answers.com/topic/frottage

 

Fun Fact: What inspired Max Ernst to explore this technique?

Wood grain, grain in planks of wood used for flooring

 

 

example of frottageForest and Dove, 1927
Surrealism, oil on canvas

 

Later On

Above the Clouds, 1920

Gauguin (Dada), 1920

Switzerland, Birthplace of Dada, 1920

Birds also Birds, Fish Snake and Scarecrow, 1921

A Friends' Reunion, 1922

Oedipus Rex, 1922

Untitled (Dada), 1922

• 1922 - 1941 lives in Paris
• founding member of Surrealism, a rising movement
• 1941 - 1953 lives in the United States
• establishes a lead in Abstract Expressionism
• 1953 returns to Paris and passes away in December, 1976

Early On

• Born April 2, 1891
• Max Ernst was one of nine children, a middle class family in Germany
• Informal introduction to the arts, learned painting from his father
• Obtained his college degree in Philosophy & Psychology 1914
• Followed by a 4 year service to the German army
• Moved back to Germany after WWI, but the horrors he had experienced stayed with him
• They influenced much of his work & he became a leader in the Dada Movement
• 1919 began his first fantastic collages

Ambiguous Figures, 1919

Family Excursions, 1919

Fruit of a Long Experience, 1919

Hat in Hand, Hat on Head 1919

 

A small preview, some of Max Ernst's earlier works:



Landscape with Sun, 1909

Untitled, 1909

Crucifixtion, 1913

Immortality, 1913

Towers, 1916

Fish Fight, 1917