{"id":334,"date":"2019-11-12T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/?p=334"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:11:49","slug":"8-cubism-dadaism-surrealism-max-ernst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/2019\/11\/12\/8-cubism-dadaism-surrealism-max-ernst\/","title":{"rendered":"8.) Cubism, Dadaism, & Surrealism: Max Ernst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Max Ernst (1897-1976) was a German-born artist who was known for pioneering the Dada and Surrealism movements. Although he was never formally trained, he created countless paintings, sculptures, prints, and collages depicting the surreal and unnatural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti (Self-Portrait)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As a young adult, he studied philosophy, which was where he became interested in the art of the mentally ill as they were full of unbounded creativity and emotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After serving in WWI, Ernst was traumatized by the things he saw during his time in the trenches, and he used art as an outlet for his trauma. He became critical of western culture and the modern world, which was a common theme in his works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here Everything is Still Floating (1920)
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Ernst became particularly interested in collage after the war and produced a few collages alongside Dadaists Jean Arp and Johannes Baargeld.
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EDIT: Typo.. changed Aro to Arp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He created two techniques: frottage and grattage, which contributed to the Surrealist movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forest and Sun<\/em> (1931 )
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This work utilized his frottage technique, which involved laying a piece of paper over a textured surface and going over it with a pencil to record the surface.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birds above the Forest<\/em>\/\/Oiseaux au-dessus de la for\u00eat<\/em> (1929)
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A similar technique created by Ernst, grattage involved scraping the paint off a canvas covered with a layer of oil paint to create an interesting texture. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ernst\u2019s work is incredibly complex and requires one to look at it more than once.  It clearly reflects the mind of someone who is disillusioned and critical of societal norms. I like how the subjects in his paintings stand out against softer backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The King Playing with the Queen (1944)
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Later in his career, Ernst turned his attention to sculpture. The sculpture above reflects his interest in African art. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Barbarians (1937) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.britannica.com\/biography\/Max-Ernst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.museothyssen.org\/en\/collection\/artists\/ernst-max\/solitary-and-conjugal-trees
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Max Ernst (1897-1976) was a German-born artist who was known for pioneering the Dada and Surrealism movements. Although he was never formally trained, he created countless paintings, sculptures, prints, and collages depicting the surreal and unnatural.  As a young adult, he studied philosophy, which was where he became interested in the art of the mentally… Continue reading 8.) Cubism, Dadaism, & Surrealism: Max Ernst<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michelleviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}