Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents Max Ernst: Surreal Mindscapes & Characters in the Schaefer International Gallery, an exhibition showcasing the work of one of the most significant artists to ...

Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels" employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way. In the Museum of ...

Surrealism gives art permission. No wild-child artist, for example, is without a debt to its ideas: Tim Hawkinson at the Whitney and Takashi Murakami at the Japan Society are carrying surrealist genes ...

Since Max Ernst organized his first Dada exhibition in his native Cologne, 27 years had passed. That had been quite a show. The entrance had been through a public lavatory, and visitors were given ...

Some artists are destined to endure the hazards of “interesting times,” and Max Ernst (1891-1976) was one of them. In Some artists are destined to endure the hazards of “interesting times,” and Max ...

Giovanni Guida 'God fights the Coronavirus (And you'll be cured of all diseases.. and I'll take care of you)' (2020) grattage and frottage on graphia Evoking otherworldly drama, God is depicted as a ...

The year was 1922. Dada was dead, Surrealism not yet born. Max Ernst, a fledgling artist who had figured prominently in the former movement and would soon help formulate the latter, was in his native ...

The founder of Cologne’s branch of Dada and an early Surrealist, Ernst started using the phrase “beyond painting” in the early nineteen-twenties. Sometimes he applied it to technical innovations, as ...

Art teacher Jacqueline Hahn will continue her lecture series on legendary artists’ lives and artistic movements with a discussion about Max Ernst, pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism, from 7 ...

“Beyond Painting”, the title of a major exhibition of the work of Max Ernst at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, could be mistaken for a curator’s matter-of-fact description of a show that, ...

During his entire career, Ernst found inspiration in scientific illustrations. One fruitful source of them was the popular science magazine La Nature (begun 1873). E.g., in two 1934 paintings, each ...