Of This Men Shall Know Nothing
Von diesem wissen Männer nichts | |
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English: Of This Men Shall Know Nothing | |
Artist | Max Ernst |
Year | 1923 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 81 cm × 64 cm (32 in × 25 in) |
Location | Tate Gallery, London |
Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (German: Von diesem wissen Männer nichts) is oil on canvas painting by a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet Max Ernst. The painting was completed in 1923 in Paris, France. It is created in a Surrealism style by use of symbolic painting genre during First French period. The painting measures 81 by 64 centimeters and is now housed at Tate Liverpool.[1]
Description
The painting shares several features with Silberer's diagram: its landscape setting and low horizon; the gradation of the sky from light at the bottom to dark at the top; and the inclusion of the Sun and the Moon. Ernst replaced the cube of Primal Matter with a pile of entrails.[2] Elsewhere Ernst also employed alchemical motifs, such as in this painting of the sexual conjunction of Sun and Moon.[3]
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- Aquis Submersus (1919)
- Trophy, Hypertrophied (1919)
- Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person (1919-20)
- Murdering Airplane (1920)
- The Hat Makes the Man (1920)
- The Elephant Celebes (1921)
- Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (1923)
- Pietà or Revolution by Night (1923)
- Forest and Dove (1927)
- The Wood (1927)
- The Barbarians (1937)
- Napoleon in the Wilderness (1941)
- The Eye of Silence (c. 1943-44)
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1945)
- Frottage
- Grattage
- Loplop
- Une semaine de bonté (1934)
- Leonora Carrington (partner)
- Peggy Guggenheim (third wife)
- Dorothea Tanning (fourth wife)
- Jimmy Ernst (son)
- Portrait of Max Ernst (c. 1939 painting)