Analysis of Tanguy's Painting "The Earth and the Air"

Earth and air are oil paintings of French surrealist, Yves Tanguy. It is one of contemporary art paintings at the Corn collection of the Baltimore Art Museum. It was created by Tanguy in 1941. It is wooden frame width about 30 "x 40". The background color divides the fragment into two parts, top and bottom. The top is about 3/5 of the whole. It is drawn in blue and white like a watercolor sky without themes. It has a wonderful feeling because the colors are mixed smoothly.

Two different surrealist arts have appeared. Artists such as Dali, René Magritte in Belgium, Yves Tanguy in France, etc have created excellent images using wonderful techniques. These works carefully drawn are sometimes called "hand-painted fantasy pictures". Other artists such as the Spanish painter Joan Miró, the Swiss born painter Paul Klee, the French sculptor Jean Arp, do not adopt a real style. Their work usually consists of an abstract form that has no intention similar to familiar ones. In their freshness and vitality, these works are like children 's art.

Raymond George "Yves" Tanguy, a Frenchman Surrealist painter born in Paris on January 5, 1900. Born in Paris, his parents are Brittany. His father is captain. When his father died in 1958, Tungi lived with relatives in the Brittany region. He spent the summer on the Atlantic coast. By observing his picture it was obvious that he left a deep impression on him. Others think he has a deep attachment to his mother. Tanguy returned to Paris where he attended Lycee Montaigne and later Lycee St. Louis until 1917. One of his classmates is Henri Matisse, son of Pierre. In the meantime, Tanguy ignored his research. Unless he is such a lonesome person, he will adapt to the role of the class rebels. Rather than studying serious drinking of Tanguy, a thorough study of drug abuse by sniffing ether. This can explain the quality of his dreamlike paintings.

In René Magritte and Ives Tanguy's work, this kind of push and pull between reality and fantasy is also evident. A painting after the character's son, Magritte's painting, Yves Tanggy's work "Indefinite Partitioning" demonstrates this view and demonstrates the ability of the artist to use both realistic and surrealistic methods. Still, as seen in The Elephant Celebes of Max Ernst and The Harlequin 's Carnival of Joan Miró, there are surrealist who do not adopt style like this picture. These works have almost no similarities in terms of aesthetics, but they both perfectly capture the artist's paintings and are almost rustic surre themes.