Max Ernst's Art

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Max Ernst’s artwork and the 3-D technique
Have you even visited a museum of art such as Whitney Museum of American Art or Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that displays work of arts such as paintings, photographs or sculptures from all around the world and from different artists? I personally visited the MoMA and as I was looking around I saw lots of paintings and sculptures, but the one caught my attention was the three-dimensional painting by the artist named Max Ernst called Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale dated ca. 1924, made in oil on wood with painted wood elements and frame. The painting caught my attention because it is two in one picture, what I mean is this art was made as regular picture using color and brush than Ernst
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Camfield the author of the article “Max Ernst: Dada & the Dawn of Surrealism” wrote his opinion about Ernst works and also quoted the opinion of Andre Breton about Ernst’s artwork. Breton said “introduced an entirely original scheme of visual structure; yet they corresponded exactly to the intentions of Lautreamont and Rimbaud in poetry … We were all filled immediately with unparalleled admiration.” (Camfield page 7-11)
Camfield persuasively mentions that the work style that Ernst had established throughout his life is one of a kind and it grabs the attention of the viewers. Camfield said “The emancipation of everyday objects from their conventional environments, and their placement in improbable contexts, undermines our ability to "read" an artwork according to our preconceived notions about the world.” The author also said “Such unsettling imagery as Breton saw in Max Ernst’s collages-unrelated to our conventional frames of reference and marked by elisions and fantasy frequently associated with poetry-would become a
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Camfield is fond of Ernst work too. I think that Ernst art is on of kind that feel with sadness and lonely. Ernst art is a kind of something that you would not look at it and leave it is a kind of work that keep you hungry to know what is happening. I particularly enjoyed that painting because it take me out of my moment and put me inside the painting. Ever the title has its own mystery about it how could the nightingale threat the children and you can imagine that bad nightingale hurting the children everything look real. In the end I like this painting because it makes me think and it became my favorite piece of

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