Tag: England

D.H. Lawrence

(1885–1930) David Herbert Lawrence Works: • Aaron’s Rod (English) • Amores: Poems (English) • Bay: A Book of Poems (English) • Birds, Beasts and Flowers (English) • England, My England (English) • Fantasia of the Unconscious (English) • Kangaroo (English)…

Le Brochet (1888)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Le Brochet (The Pike) 1888 Oil on canvas, 41.9 x 80.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In dabs of paint, Sisley captures the light sparkling on this magnificent pike and the bright sprig of herbs nearby. The rumpled linen,…

La Ville entière (1934)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Ville entière (The Entire City) 1934 Oil on paper on canvas, 50.2 × 61.3 cm Tate Britain, London A crumbling city looms oppressively below the ring-shaped moon. Ernst made a whole series of such works. The imagery may…

Celebes (1921)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…

Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (1923)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (Men Shall Know Nothing of This) 1923 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the…

Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (1923)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (Pietà or Revolution by Night) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 88.9 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst was a surrealist artist. Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) theory of the unconscious, surrealism…

La Lune en bouteille (1955)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London After an eight-year exile in the USA, where he settled in Arizona, Ernst began to visit Europe in 1949. He…

Dadaville (c.1924)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Dadaville c.1924 Painted plaster and cork on canvas, 68 × 56 x 6.3 cm Tate Britain, London After the destruction of the First World War, a group of European artists came together to create a new way of…

Job and His Daughters (1799-1800)

Blake, William (1757-1827) Job and His Daughters 1799–1800 Pen and tempera on canvas, 27.3 x 38.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man with a long, white beard and flowing, white hair sits surrounded by three young women in…