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Fan account of Max Ernst (1891-1976), a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poet and a pioneer of the Dada and Surrealism movements. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
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Woman, Old Man, and Flower (Weib, Greis und Blume) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79326
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November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-102
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Dadaville https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/dadaville-1924
Dadaville
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Flying Horse Garden https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/flying-horse-garden-1935
Flying Horse Garden
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Dancing Owl https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/dancing-owl
Dancing Owl
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-91
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The Inner Vision: The Egg https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-inner-vision-the-egg-1929
The Inner Vision: The Egg
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Commonplaces - Frontpiece https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/commonplaces-frontpiece-1971
Commonplaces - Frontpiece
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The cardinals are dying https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-cardinals-are-dying-1962
The cardinals are dying
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Illustration for "The Misfortunes of the Immortals" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-for-the-misfortunes-of-the-immortals-1922-1
Illustration for "The Misfortunes of the Immortals"
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-81
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-65
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-44
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-30
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-71
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Europe after the Rain I https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/europe-after-the-rain-i-1933
Europe after the Rain I
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-129
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Dada Gauguin https://www.artic.edu/artworks/136121/
Gift of Maurice and Muriel F. Fulton
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-164
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Variant of plate (page 71) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête http://www.moma.org/collection/works/16345
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Untitled (Birds) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118687/
This work belongs to a group of paintings of birds, most of which were made between 1924 and 1920, according to Spies (Ernst Katalog/, vol. 2, 1975 pp. 381-91, nos. 728-50, ills.; vol. 3, 1976, p. 131, nos. 1044-45. ills.). Dated by Spies to 1924 (ibid., vol. 2, 1975. p. 381, no. 730, ill.), this work is especially close to Ernst's Birds, also of 1924, and Two Birds of around 1925 (ibid., vol. 2, 1975, pp. 385-86 nos. 738, 740, ills.), all three of which were given very similar cork frames by the artist. Although these works are generally thought to be executed on sandpaper, in this case at least, as Cynthia Kuniej Berry has observed, "close examination of the unframed painting reveals otherwise" (see Cynthia Kuniej Berry, Examination Report, August 27, 1993, in curatorial files). In her report, the painting is described as "executed on a fine lightweight, plain weave linen," on which the paint was "generously applied with active brushwork in textured, opaque masses with thick impasto," while 'the remainder of the surface is covered with a thin, even layer of sand" (ibid.). Ernst indeed applied paint thickly to create the forms of the birds and then scraped through to reveal colored layers below, employing what he called his grattage technique. The ribbed flecks of brown and black paint skillfully connote feathers. The circular heads of the birds appear in many of Ernst's works from the period, such as 100,000 Doves (1926, Paris, private collection; Ernst Katalog, vol. 3, 1976, p. 121, no. 1025, ill.), in which the circular form also is transformed into an eye or a breast. The undulation of the picture's surface seems intrinsic to the work and gives the effect of a relief, although it may have also resulted from environmental changes (see Kuniej Berry 1993 above). Ernst used similar carved cork frame, often with varying designs, in other works of the same subject (Ernst Katalog, vol. 2, 1975, pp. 385-91 nos. 738-40, 744-46, 749, 751, ills.; vol. 3, 1976, pp. 131, 136, nos. 1045, 1055, ills.). — Entry, Dawn Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, p. 126. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The Idol (L'Idole) from Natural History (Histoire naturelle) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/94243
Gift of James Thrall Soby
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-130
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness"
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Sanctuary https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/sanctuary-1965
Sanctuary
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The Giant Snake https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-giant-snake
The Giant Snake
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM