APW - Max Ernst (608 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2006-08-30 07:53:22 EDT
Artist Max Ernst was born in Cologne, Germany in 1891. He studied philosophy at the University of Bonn in 1910, and married art historian Luise Straus in 1918. After meeting with Paul Klee in 1919, Ernst began experimenting and created various paintings, block prints and collages. He served with the German army in WWI and then with Jean Arp and Alfred Grunwald started the Dada movement, but left for Paris in 1922.
The 1920's were a pivotal time for Ernst. He created "Frottage," which was a pencil-rubbing technique, and with Jean Miro created "Grottage," which was a technique of trowling pigment from a canvas. His 1926 painting "The Virgin Spanking The Christ Child Before Three Witnesses" drew much controversey and a year later he married Marie-Berthe Aurenche.
Although he had struck a friendship with sculptor Alberto Giacometti, he was forced to flee Germany with Peggy Guggenhiem (who he later married), Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall. He lived in New York, helping to form the Abstract Expressionism movement until 1946 when he left for California. There he married Dorthea Tanning and relocated to Arizona. Returning to Europe in 1963, the couple settled in the south of France. In 1976 Max Ernst died in a Paris hospital shortly after the Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais had produced a complete catalogue of his work.
User Reviews
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-30 22:05:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The detail in a few of these is insane. Very profound stuff here.
Submitted by Sepsis (user info) at 2006-08-30 21:56:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
plagiarism = auto +2?
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-30 21:04:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Sepsis (user info) at 2006-08-30 20:56:43 (#)
Ranking: -2
looks like somebody found wikipedia..
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looks like somebody is a ridiculous cunt who wants to get banned again.
Submitted by Sepsis (user info) at 2006-08-30 20:56:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
looks like somebody found wikipedia..
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-08-30 19:42:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Great stuff!!
It's the Arts.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-08-30 16:00:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
cool
Submitted by choir (user info) at 2006-08-30 15:10:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
A bit too heady for me, but what can ya do?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-08-30 15:04:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was sure I rated this this morning.
I love the colors.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-08-30 14:58:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like how the colors on some of his work make it look like it was created with cardboard cutouts a-la Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-08-30 14:58:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
APW +2
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-08-30 14:48:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2006-08-30 13:13:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Mmmm... Surrealist.
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-08-30 10:29:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Odd stuff, but I like it. APW +2
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-08-30 10:12:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like a lot of these
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-08-30 10:11:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Oh noes, I have a snake in mine eye!"
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-30 09:50:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
virgin spanking the christ. hahahahahaha, jesus got smacked.
+2, one of these also reminded me of the movie heavy metal. i like surrealism sometimes so some of these i liked. my mind is too linear for stuff like this but hopefully i'll always appreciate the technique and personal style the artist has.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:39:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
beautiful
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:26:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
strange and wonderful
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:26:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:21:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Something there that I like, but I can't quite say what.
-Dave
Submitted by MichelleNJ (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:13:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Somehow this reminds me of the APW you did on Dave McKean... which was really awesome too.
Submitted by gravitas (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:13:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i like these
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:12:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey, cool. Sweet art.
Submitted by MichelleNJ (user info) at 2006-08-30 08:08:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Pretty
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-08-30 07:56:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thanks, asshole, I just got fired for the boobies. Actually, no I didn't. I've almost forgotten about this lad. Nice work.