PICASSO MUSEUM
22nd September 08 - 01st March 2009
Beyond Painting. Max Ernst in the Würth Collection
Described
by André Breton as “the most magnificently tormented mind that could
possibly exist”, Max Ernst (Brühl, Cologne 1891 - Paris 1976) was one
of the leading figures of 20th Century art. His overwhelming
imagination, deluded, exalted and rebellious, produced a transgressive
body of work that underwent constant experimentation and which was
inhabited by fantastical creatures and impossible situations.
“My
wanderings, my restlessness, my impatience, my doubts, my beliefs, my
hallucinations, my rages, my revolts, my refusal to submit to any
discipline, even those of my own invention… none of these have
succeeded in creating a climate conducive to a calm, serene body of
work.” This was the comment Max Ernst made on his own work in 1970, at
the end of his life. Behind him lay a lifetime of searching and
constant experimentation, leading to a body of work that is one of the
most significant contributions of its time to art and, in particular,
to the Surrealist movement.
Surrealism, like
Dadaism before it, was the response of a generation of artists to
Western society’s cult of rational thought which, in their opinion, had
led to the horrors of the First World War. The Surrealists believed in
the importance of the unconscious, fantasy and dreams as a way to
achieve a deeper level of truth.
One of the
foremost of these young artists was Max Ernst. His father was a teacher
at a school for the deaf and an amateur artist, and Ernst grew up with
an understanding of the workings of the inner life. The birth of his
sister coincided with the death of the family’s pet bird, an event that
was to become part of the painter’s personal mythology and the source
for many of the subjects he painted: half-human, half-bird-like
creatures, hints of sexual relations between women and animals, and
situations in which the morbid and the erotic both merge.
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