One of Yves Tanguy’s most crucial paintings is Plusieurs ont Vécu (Many Have Lived) (see fig. 1). The medium is oil on canvas and it was painted in Paris is 1939, shortly before Tanguy moved to the United States. Today, this painting is located in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. The subject of this painting is isolation and is one of Tanguy’s most famous post apocalyptic landscapes. The subject of isolation relates to the feelings of exile Tanguy felt before moving to the United States. In America, Tanguy would be isolated, no longer in the home he once knew and loved. Plusieurs ont Vécu represents a shift in Tanguy’s artwork as he moves from his native country to a foreign land. Through this painting alone, the viewer can
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Yves Tanguy, Shadow Country. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.06 x 80.33 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. David Rumsey Map Collection. unconsciousness technique, blind chance, and surprise. His later American work becomes empathetic, his color becomes darker, his shapes become larger, and his compositions become more crowded. An example of a typical Tanguy landscape is Shadow Country, which shows a foreground that is bounded with the sky (see fig. 2). Objects in this painting float, while others crowd around dolmens pictured below. One of Tanguy’s first paintings was a street scene, Rue de la Sante, that resembles de Chirico’s work. Rue de la Sante has a deep perspective and is filled with architectural distortions (see fig. 3). He painted this based on his perception of how he saw Paris at night. This painting shows the “sensation of the speed of the motorcar” in the street, as well as the “fascination of the city at night.” This painting relates more closely to the “real” physical world than Tanguy’s imagination, more so than his
Figure 3. Yves Tanguy, Rue de la Santé. 1925. Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.1 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Painting and Sculpture …show more content…
5). Traces of this painting can be seen as relating to Nazism, Communism, and a new world transferred by “techné.” Tanguy is giving the audience a pictorial analysis regarding the phenomena going on in the world within this painting; it shows the viewer the actual phenomena along with his personal reaction to it. After WWII, Tanguy created a series of postwar paintings, which include The Closing Days and The Rapidity of Sleep, both of which were shown in white and gray. These paintings show a major change from his earlier, colorful works and they become more crowded as well, as the world shifted to its new ways. WWII created a vacuum in the world in regards to art; the remaining surrealists were experiencing a new life postwar, along with it a new generation of artistic
Yves Tanguy, Shadow Country. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.06 x 80.33 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. David Rumsey Map Collection. unconsciousness technique, blind chance, and surprise. His later American work becomes empathetic, his color becomes darker, his shapes become larger, and his compositions become more crowded. An example of a typical Tanguy landscape is Shadow Country, which shows a foreground that is bounded with the sky (see fig. 2). Objects in this painting float, while others crowd around dolmens pictured below. One of Tanguy’s first paintings was a street scene, Rue de la Sante, that resembles de Chirico’s work. Rue de la Sante has a deep perspective and is filled with architectural distortions (see fig. 3). He painted this based on his perception of how he saw Paris at night. This painting shows the “sensation of the speed of the motorcar” in the street, as well as the “fascination of the city at night.” This painting relates more closely to the “real” physical world than Tanguy’s imagination, more so than his
Figure 3. Yves Tanguy, Rue de la Santé. 1925. Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.1 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Painting and Sculpture …show more content…
5). Traces of this painting can be seen as relating to Nazism, Communism, and a new world transferred by “techné.” Tanguy is giving the audience a pictorial analysis regarding the phenomena going on in the world within this painting; it shows the viewer the actual phenomena along with his personal reaction to it. After WWII, Tanguy created a series of postwar paintings, which include The Closing Days and The Rapidity of Sleep, both of which were shown in white and gray. These paintings show a major change from his earlier, colorful works and they become more crowded as well, as the world shifted to its new ways. WWII created a vacuum in the world in regards to art; the remaining surrealists were experiencing a new life postwar, along with it a new generation of artistic