Max Ernst— The Later Life, Collages and Sculptures

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Max Ernst was one of the brilliant painters of the twentieth century who has devoted his art and mind to everything extraordinary. The German painter who later became one of the most sought after sculptors always played with his mind and investigated its many strides. Max Ernst’s initial days were flaunted with performances of Dadaist art but it was in the mid-way of his journey into the realms of art he shaped his thought into the molds of sculptures as well.

By the year 1929 Ernst had already explored the Dadaist paintings and artworks as much as his collages. Around this time he returned to collage and he started creating some of the more radiant series of his oeuvre like “The Woman with 100 Heads,” which was his first “collage novel.” This was a sequence of illustrations that was assembled from 19th- and 20th-century reading materials and textual objects and then he shaped a format and the very format has been credited in his name. He was the inventor of the format. Afterwards, he continued creating more and more collage novels including “A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil” (1930) and “A Week of Kindness” (1934). Max Ernst’s paintings, sculptures and creations, his Dadaist works, his collages and collage novels alongside his surrealist works sheds a light on the artist that is quite different from that of his contemporaries and peers. His vision was definitely beyond his time and that has been perfectly portrayed by Max Ernst in his works. Explore his paintings and if you are drawn to the illusions of the subconscious the despair of the artist buy Max Ernst paintings online. It’s available.

It was in the 1934 when he first took up sculptural works and he concentrated more and more on his sculptural works. For these sculptural works he started improvising more and more exploring the medium to its core. He improvised techniques, just like his experimentations in paintings, which was reflected in one of his sculptural works titled, “Oedipus II” (1934), which was a cast created out of a stack of rather precariously balanced wooden pails that shaped a sort of belligerent-looking phallic image. A new era was at the corner and the modern world was roaring into war.

At the darkened outbreak of World War II, Ernst moved to the United States, and there he joined with his third wife, the collector and a gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim (divorced 1943), and his son there. His son later was the American painter Jimmy Ernst. He was living on the Long Island, New York, and after 1946 he moved to Sedona in Arizona with his fourth wife and the American painter Dorothea Tanning. Around this time, he came back to his sculptural fetish and concentrated on such sculptures like, “The King Playing with the Queen” (1944), the works shows an African influence.

He returned to France in 1953 and since then his work became less experimental. It was for him to try and perfect some of his modeling techniques using traditional sculptural materials. His sculptural works recalls his nonconformist attitude about art and his experimentations with materials and textures. The images of Max Ernst’s sculptures are all available online. Explore; take a deeper look into his experimentations beyond the realms of ordinary. Experience the art of an anarchist and buy Max Ernst’s sculptures online.