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The title given by Max Ernst to the present painting — Untitled.(Dada) — leaves no doubt about his attachment to this movement. The artist, who came to call himself “Dadamax Ernst, ” was one of the leading members of the Cologne Dadaists together with the artist and poet Johannes Baargeld, who belonged to the Communist party, and the experimental artist Hans Arp.
By Dr. Charles Cramer and Dr. Kim Grant. Max Ernst, The Word, or Woman-Bird, 1921, collage with gouache and watercolor, 18.5 x 10.6 cm (private collection) A nude woman stands in the foreground, a collar around her headless neck and birds tucked between her legs and under her arm. Her right thigh has been skinned to reveal a network of root ...
The Dadaistic Life of Max Ernst. Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. – M. Ernst. Dadaism was a movement of the grotesque, absurdity, and an expression of the modern world meaninglessness. Not only paintings, sculptures, and poems ...
Jan 5, 2024 · Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a prolific German avant-garde artist. He was a pioneer in the early 20th-century movements of Dada and Surrealism and developed a number of inventive artistic techniques. Ernst had the ability to make the unbelievable believable through his art. For this reason, he remains to this day one of the most complex ...
Nov 22, 2017 · With collage as his foundation, Ernst became ever more ambitious. In Cologne he was a pioneer of Dadaism, a movement that rejected reason and aesthetics for irrationality and protest. His ...
Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism. Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts ...
Nov 12, 2023 · Famous Dadaist Max Ernst was an innovative German multi-media artist whose many Dada paintings reflected his early interests in matters of the unconscious world. Ernst’s work was largely informed by his experience as a soldier in World War I, which greatly impacted his view of Western culture and fueled his passion for Dada.
