The 1000++ Artworks created around 1950 and ...

Medium of war, Max Ernst. Europe After the Rain remains his pullulating masterpiece, in which emotional desolation, physical exhaustion, and fears of the destructive power of total warfare combine - after the rain of fire, the biblical deluge, and the reign of terror. The title dates back to an earl...

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George Grosz: The Artist

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Ernst is most closely associated with Dada and Surrealism: artistic and literary movements in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s that prized the irrational and the unconscious over order and reason. Among the techniques favored by these artists were ones that welcomed the hand of chance. This work demons...

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Magritte got the name for this painting from his poet friend Louis Scutenaire, who often helped him find names for his paintings. In this case, the name Golconda refers to a city in India, which was the seat for two different kingdoms from the 14th to 17th centuries. The richness of the region, as i...

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Introduction

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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park is an enormous mural that contains 400 characters from Mexican history. The mural is a Surreal dream, a collection of events in a single space, with no adherence to laws of time and space. The characters are not interacting but neither are they separate, t...

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Roberto Matta painted /

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About the Artist

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Inside this painting are six separate images, interwoven and laid atop one another.This composition is probably the best example of paranoiac-critical activity in operation in the paintings done by Dal. He is not satisfied with pursuing a double image but succeeds in accumulating and making rise sim...

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