Word: tanguy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YVES TANGUY Woodbury, Conn...
...canvases in the Hartford show reveal, Tanguy has pictured the same desert, strewn with the same rubble, over and over again. His art has changed hardly at all in 29 years. His oils seem to represent hot and cold vertebrae, crystalline antennae and petrified blood vessels, heaped like Martian cairns in a dim wasteland. Tanguy lays no claim to imagination, boasts of having no purpose. Says he: "Seeking is the important thing, not painting. You may think painting is to show something new, but no: Picasso and Dali do that, and they are monkeys. I don't want to show...
Dreams Like Wine. Tanguy's reputation is based on the stubbornly continuing popularity of surrealism, on the fact that most critics tend to praise anything they do not understand?and, most of all, on skill. It may be even harder to picture things the world never saw than to picture everyday things, yet Tanguy paints the odd detritus of his dreams as crisply, convincingly and decoratively as Chardin painted food and wine. He also has a literary flair. Tanguy's paintings may be practically interchangeable, but the obscure titles he gives them are varied and provocative?Mama, Papa Is Wounded...
...Tanguy the country gentleman may be as baffled as anyone else by the products of Tanguy the painter. Baffled or not, he keeps on painting pictures that are almost all brilliantly done, decorative and mighty stimulating at first glance...