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Episode #108: Modern Love--Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning (Season 13, Episode 1)

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The Importance of Surrealism

This piece, a mixed media work involving both painting and collage elements, was reportedly inspired by what Ernst called a fever vision from his childhood. For more than 20 years now, I have been captivated and disturbed by this work of art. This is actually where Dorothea Tanning found herself a decade later, when the huge exhibition, Fantastic Art, Dada Surrealism, hit moma in late 1936. It included such disparate figures as Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, and Giuseppe Archamboldo all the way up to the most contemporary works created that very year by the likes of Dora Mar, Leonor Fini, Yves Tang

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