Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents Max Ernst: Surreal Mindscapes & Characters in the Schaefer International Gallery, an exhibition showcasing the work of one of the most significant artists to ...

“There’s an amusement to all of them,” says Paul Kasmin of the charmingly elegant and quirky works in his eponymous gallery’s current exhibition, “Max Ernst Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934–1967. He says ...

A group of 11 rare and darkly fantastical paintings incorporating birds by Max Ernst are to go on show at Sotheby’s in London–although none are for sale. The works have all been loaned by unnamed ...

Since Max Ernst organized his first Dada exhibition in his native Cologne, 27 years had passed. That had been quite a show. The entrance had been through a public lavatory, and visitors were given ...

Surrealism gives art permission. No wild-child artist, for example, is without a debt to its ideas: Tim Hawkinson at the Whitney and Takashi Murakami at the Japan Society are carrying surrealist genes ...

The founder of Cologne’s branch of Dada and an early Surrealist, Ernst started using the phrase “beyond painting” in the early nineteen-twenties. Sometimes he applied it to technical innovations, as ...

During his entire career, Ernst found inspiration in scientific illustrations. One fruitful source of them was the popular science magazine La Nature (begun 1873). E.g., in two 1934 paintings, each ...

Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet, known as one of the primary pioneers of the Dada and Surrealist movements. Born on April 2, 1891, in Brühl, Germany, ...

Locating and mapping the human unconscious was a primary plotline within the braided narratives of modernism, and it fell to the Surrealist painters to represent the inchoate structures and ...