Artistic space #151 - The exceptional Max Ernst
The exceptional Max Ernst
Today I bring you another of the artists linked to the cubist and surrealist period, despite being of German origin was nationalized as a French citizen, was also in the movement Dada, I speak of the talented Max Ernst. Come with me to learn more about this incredible artist.
He was born in the German city of Brühl, on April 2, 1891. His first steps were not specifically in painting, he studied philosophy at the University of Bonn, he was fascinated with the subjects of thought and the mind in general so he also decides to study psychiatry, in a visit to an art exhibition is where he really finds his passion, so again he begins to study. This time art history.
As a teenager, he had a penchant for works by the mentally ill, perhaps hence his expressionist influence, years later he manages to appreciate works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Picasso. Establishing a deep admiration and influence the artist in process.
Already his stage as a painter and sculptor, he is so immersed in art that he dares to get involved in the organization of the Dada movement and later also collaborates in the surrealist movement, having a broad vision of art allowed him to have great dexterity and handling of variety of techniques, as well as the use of revolutionary materials for the time.
In 1922 he settled in Paris, where he spent a great deal of time composing surrealist works, highlighting creatures that came out of his imagination, as well as imposing human figures, where the backgrounds or spaces were the inspiration for Renaissance art.
He became popular among artists for creating an innovative technique he called frottage which can transfer an object to canvas with the help of a pencil shaded object. He would then create another technique that title gratrage which is a scraping of pigments that are transferred to a canvas once they are dry.
Thanks to his friendship with his colleague Luis Buñuel, he participates as an actor in the film The Golden Age.
Because of his political ideas, he was imprisoned in France during the Second World War. After being released, he was able to go to the United States. His artistic life was based on successes and failures in the search for expressive forms, techniques for making his paintings and materials, he handled both the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional in a splendid way, thanks to his knowledge of psychiatry and philosophy he was able to delve into the depths of thought and mind achieving compositions that even today surpass expectations. He often resorted to such simple things as remembering dreams and then making previous paintings and notes.
That is why the grandiosity of this artist who, in a practical and theoretical way, achieved a simple way of representing that world of fiction that through dreams he could only show with his paintings. Her art is one of the most spontaneous forms she could have come up with, and she couldn't have made that choice better. Especially in the direction his life took when he decided to dedicate himself to art.
Then in 1952 after the end of the war he returned to France by adoption, where he was already recognized and managed to obtain the biennial painting prize of Venice in 1952. In 1976 he died in Paris.
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