Max Ernst (1891-1976) is a German-born French painter and sculptor who was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism. He became a naturalized citizen of both the United States (1948) and France (1958)
Max Ernst attacked the conventions and traditions of art, all the while possessing a thorough knowledge of European art history. He questioned the sanctity of art by creating non-representational works without clear narratives, by making sport of religious icons, and by formulating new means of creating artworks to express the modern condition.
Ernst was profoundly interested in the art of the mentally ill as a means to access primal emotion and unfettered creativity. he was one of the first artists to apply Sigmund Freud's dream theories investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.
Interested in locating the origin of his own creativity, Ernst attempted to freely paint from his inner psyche and in an attempt to reach a pre-verbal state of being. Doing so unleashed his primal emotions and revealed his personal traumas, which then became the subject of his collages and paintings. This desire to paint from the sub-conscious, also known as automatic painting was central to his Surrealist works and would later influence the Abstract Expressionists.
Max Ernst attacked the conventions and traditions of art, all the while possessing a thorough knowledge of European art history. He questioned the sanctity of art by creating non-representational works without clear narratives, by making sport of religious icons, and by formulating new means of creating artworks to express the modern condition.
Ernst was profoundly interested in the art of the mentally ill as a means to access primal emotion and unfettered creativity. he was one of the first artists to apply Sigmund Freud's dream theories investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.
Interested in locating the origin of his own creativity, Ernst attempted to freely paint from his inner psyche and in an attempt to reach a pre-verbal state of being. Doing so unleashed his primal emotions and revealed his personal traumas, which then became the subject of his collages and paintings. This desire to paint from the sub-conscious, also known as automatic painting was central to his Surrealist works and would later influence the Abstract Expressionists.
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| Mr Max Ernst |
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| 1919, Aquis Submersus |
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| 1919, Fruit of a Long Experience |
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| 1920, A little sick horse's leg |
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| 1920, Katharina Ondulata |
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| 1920, Little Machine |
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| 1920, Murdering Airplane |
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| 1920, Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti |
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| 1920, The Hat Makes the Man |
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| 1921, Birds also Birds, Fish Snake and Scarecrow |
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| 1921, Pleiades |
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| 1921, The Elephant Celebes |
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| 1922, Oedipus Rex |
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| 1923, At the first clear word |
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| 1923, Of This Men Shall Know Nothing |
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| 1923, Pietà or Revolution by Night |
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| 1923, The wavering woman |
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| 1923, Ubu Imperator |
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| 1923, Woman, Old Man, and Flower |
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| 1924, Dadaville |
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| 1924, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale |
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| 1925, Sea and Sun |
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| 1925, The Beautiful Season |
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| 1925, The Couple in Lace |
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| 1926, The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three |
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| 1927, Fishbone Forest |
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| 1927-28, Forest |
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| 1927, Forest and Dove |
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| 1927, Forest and Sun |
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| 1927, Max Ernst Showing a Young Girl the Head of his Father |
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| 1930, Loplop Introduces Loplop |
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| 1933, The Embalmed Forest |
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| 1935, La grande ville |
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| 1936,The nymph echo |
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| 1937, Barbarians Marching to the West |
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| 1937, Die ganze Stadt |
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| 1937, The Angel of Hearth and Home |
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| 1937, The Angel of the home or the Triumph of Surrealism |
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| 1940, La Toilette De La Mariée |
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| 1940, Solitary Tree and Married Trees |
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| 1941, Europe after the Rain II |
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| 1941, Napoleon in the Wilderness |
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| 1942, The Antipope |
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| 1943, The Eye of Silence |
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| 1943, Painting for Young People |
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| 1944, The King Playing with the Queen |
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| 1945, Vox Angelica |
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| 1946, The Phases of the Nigh |
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| 1946, The Temptation of Saint Anthony |
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| 1953, Colorado of Medusa, Color Raft of Medusa |
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| 1959, Fille et mère |
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| 1962, The Garden of France |
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| Some animals are illiterate |
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