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La Forêt - (The Forest) Large Framed Print
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36x26 inches
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La Forêt - (The Forest) Large Framed Print
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50x36 inches
"La forêt - (The Forest)" is a famous forest painting by Max Ernst. The subject of a dense forest appears often in Ernst’s work of the late twenties and early thirties. These canvases generally contain a wall of trees, a solar disk, and an apparition of a bird hovering amid the foliage. Using his grattage (scraping) technique, Ernst covered his canvases completely with pattern and then interpreted the images that emerged, thus allowing texture to suggest composition in a spontaneous fashion. In The Forest the artist probably placed the canvas over a rough surface (perhaps wood), scraped oil paint over the canvas, and then rubbed, scraped, and overpainted the area of the trees. |
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La Forêt - (The Forest) Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat •
36x26 inches
La Forêt - (The Forest) Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat •
50x36 inches
"La forêt - (The Forest)" is a famous forest painting by Max Ernst. The subject of a dense forest appears often in Ernst’s work of the late twenties and early thirties. These canvases generally contain a wall of trees, a solar disk, and an apparition of a bird hovering amid the foliage. Using his grattage (scraping) technique, Ernst covered his canvases completely with pattern and then interpreted the images that emerged, thus allowing texture to suggest composition in a spontaneous fashion. In The Forest the artist probably placed the canvas over a rough surface (perhaps wood), scraped oil paint over the canvas, and then rubbed, scraped, and overpainted the area of the trees.
Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Max Ernst attacked the conventions and traditions of art, all the while possessing a thorough knowledge of European art history. He questioned the sanctity of art by creating non-representational works without clear narratives, by making sport of religious icons, and by formulating new means of creating artworks to express the modern condition.