Max Ernst

Sad to see a great man in a little box, kind of surreal don't you think?

     Ernst, Max  b. 1891  d. 1976

The German painter-poet Max Ernst was a member of the dada movement and a founder of surrealism. A self-taught artist, he formed a Dada group in Cologne, Germany, with other avant-garde artists. He pioneered a method called frottage, in which a sheet of paper is placed on the surface of an object and then penciled over until the texture of the surface is transferred. In 1925, he showed his work at the first surrealist painting exhibition in Paris. Ever wonder who Dali ripped off? , check out "the beautiful season" (oddly similar to Dali's early stuff). Also Check out "The Eye of Silence" and "Uba Imperator", good stuff I promise.

     Le Pere Lachaise, Paris, France

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