Yves Tanguy

January 5, 1900 -January 15, 1955

Who Was He?

• A French artist whose paintings focused on surrealism.

• Born in Paris, France; but moved to Locronan, Finistère with his mother in 1908 after his father died.

• He was drafted into the army in 1918 where he befriended Jacques Prévert.

• He left the military in 1922 and returned to Paris.

What is Surrealism?• A movement that began in the early 1920’s

• Surrealist artists usually use “the element of surprise”, non sequitur images, and unexpected juxtapositions in their works.

The Elephant Celebes (1921) by Max Ernst

The Red Tower (La Tour Rouge) (1913) by Giorgio de Chirico

The Beginning of His Career

Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory

Giorgio de Chirico

• Tanguy was heavily influenced by Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical painting. This lead him into becoming a painter.

• His early work was considered to be naïve. But in 1927, his paintings started showing maturing.

Mama, Papa Is Wounded! (1927)Rue de la Santé (1925)

Neither Legends Nor Shapes (1930)

The Sensitive Layer (1933)

Day of Inertia (1937)

Indefinite Divisibility (1942) The Palace of the Windowed Rocks (1942)

His Final Painting

Multiplication of the Arcs (1954)

Info (Slide Work in Progress)Jacques Prévert, in around 1924 Tanguy was introduced into the circle of surrealist artists around André Breton

Tanguy's older work even showed some reference to Chirico (Metaphysical). Metaphysical: Movement created by Chirico-dream like paintings of squares typical of idealized Itilian Cities as well as objects beyond physical reality.

His Mama, Papa Is Wounded! (1927),was a title taken from a psychiatric case history.

Tanguy's style consists of bonelike and vegetable objects either airborn or on the ground.

In 1930-1931, Tanguy took a trip to Africa and began drawing rocklike objects which were harshly lighted. But once hereturned, he went back to his older style though by the mid-1930s he usually omitted the fixed horizon line and presented a continuous floating space.

Tanguy married another surrealist artist named Kay sage. When they moved to America, his paintings gained richer colors and the objects began to grow larger.

They moved to America in 1939 to get away from the events in World War II.

Several paintings, such as Indefinite Divisibility (1942) contain tubular,geometrical constructions (along with the organic elements) which suggest the world of machines. Partially due to a trip to Arizona.

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Sources (Work in Progress)• Pictures

• Portrait: http://www.doddsnet.com/Tanguy/tanguy.jpg• 1.http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/inner/tangy01a.jpg• 2.http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VoFM4aW7x9A/TEtDH8IKLuI/AAAAAAAACsQ/Tb79Oec6JPQ/s1600/tanguy11.JPG• 3.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VoFM4aW7x9A/TEtDHuCOrVI/AAAAAAAACsI/hzqH_kTWsvU/s1600/multiplication_of_the_arcs.jpg• 4.http://www.surrealists.co.uk/artistsimages/YvesTanguy-Recievesgrace.jpg• 5.http://www.photosmarval.org/images/peintres/surrealisme/yves-tanguy-09.jpg• 6.http://emmazeicescu.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/reply_to_red.jpg• 7.http://www.matta-art.com/tanguy/window.jpg• 8.http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20050207&catalog=71687&gallery=110884&lot=00067&filetype=2• 9.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QmAZc-oML.jpg• 10.http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media_collection/6/GMA%203893.jpg • 11.http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_68_30744_yves-tanguy.jpg• http://art.wisc.edu/art108/_images/fullsized/1354fs.jpg

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