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YVES TANGUY PUNK SURREALIST & THE INVASION OF THE BIOMORPHS & AN ALTERNATE VERSION OF THE POEM "SENSUOUS ANGEL OR THE ROSE
OF SHARON"
PHOTO BY MAN RAY in 1936 OF SURREALIST
YVES TANGUY (1900-1955)
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In the above photo Tanguy looks like he was a member of some Punk Rock band like The SEX PISTOLS!
“Tanguy’s slight madness seeps into his artwork as did Dali’s, some examples of the more eccentric side
of the artist are chewing his socks and marinating spiders in wine. Indeed, he liked nothing more than such novelty in his
art, commenting: “I found that if I planned a picture beforehand, it never surprised me, and surprises are my pleasure
in painting”
PAINTING BY SURREALIST YVES TANGUY
(1900-1955) " RECEIVES GRACE"
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PAINTING BY YVES TANGUY (1900-1955)
" THROUGH BIRDS,THROUGH FIRE, BUT NOT THROUGH GLASS"
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“Through Birds, through Fire, but Not through Glass looks almost like
a portrait of the strange biomorphic form in the center of the painting. Just as dreams often include fragments of everyday
life, Yves Tanguy combined outer and inner "reality" into a single work of art. Although the alien-like forms are fantasy,
they are painted realistically in three-dimensional form. Several smaller forms lie or float in the landscape, helping to
create the illusion of distance. The objects are bathed in light and, like objects from the real world, they cast shadows
upon the ground. The shadows help to make the shapes appear real, yet they do not look like anything from the real world.
Instead, they look like creatures from another world. Throughout the painting there is a feeling of mystery and ambiguity.
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from The Surrealists Website
www.surrealists.co.uk
PAINTING BY SURREALIST YVES TANGUY
(1900-1955) " THE RIBBON OF EXTREMES "
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PAINTING BY SURREALIST YVES TANGUY
(1900-1955) " INDEFINITE INDIVISIBILITY"
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Here are some details & musings gleaned from the Net about the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) & some general
comments on Surrealism:
"Surrealism grew out of the despair caused by the devastations of World War I. A young generation of artists lost faith in
humanity and rational thought. The Surrealists felt that the outside world had failed them so they turned to the subconscious
mind for inspiration. This inner world of powerful images and ideas had been explored by Sigmund Freud through psychoanalysis.
Freud's theories about the human mind and his writings on the interpretation of dreams strongly influenced the Surrealists.
The Surrealists believed that the images and experiences in dreams could be used as inspiration for poetry and art. As a result,
dreams, fantasy, and the element of chance played an important role in their work."
"Tanguy, Yves (1900-55). French-born American painter. Originally a merchant seaman, he was impelled to take up painting after
seeing pictures by de Chirico and in 1925 joined the Surrealist group. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for
the rest of his life, marrying the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in 1940 and becoming an American citizen in 1948.
Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a scrupulous technique reminiscent of that of Dalí, but his imagery is highly
distinctive, featuring half marine and half lunar landscapes in which amorphous nameless objects proliferate in a spectral
dream-space... "
from The Surrealists Website
www.surrealists.co.uk
see: SURREALISM :THE DREAM OF REVOLUTION
20th Century
to_explorations.
www.nelepets.com/art/pictures/ Surrealism
www.artsconnected.org
ArtsNet Minnesota: Inner Worlds: Yves Tanguy
also see:
www.matta-art.com/tanguy
WEBMUSEUM,PARIS
/www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/tanguy
Here is a second version of the poem Sensuous Angel or The Rose of Sharon which
was posted on Friday April 15,2005.
The purpose behind doing this is to show the way in which a poem evolves going through a number of variations & how difficult
it can be to decide on which is to be the final incarnation of a particular piece of poetry. Here the character in the poem
is definitively located at THE CAFE APOLLINAIRE.
earthbound angels #5
lost child of god or the rose of sharon
edited 1, 2002
At the Café Apollinaire there is
a beautiful golden haired angel
who has lost her way
giving her body to every man she meets
she is an alien being
having come from a distant galaxy
where all the women are concubines
use their bodies as bait to fish for souls
in the name of Christ
& a hypersexual phony prophet
whose names are legion
turning scripture on its head
as she globe trots from country to country
preparing for the Millennium
the end days & the Great Rapture
hopping from bed to bed
one ceiling the same as another
when she's lying on her back
hearing a voice she believes to be an angel
but it is a wolf in sheep's clothing-
The golden haired concubine
of the Café Apollinaire
is a chamaeleon changing
for each lover she meets
some men want to save her
some men just want to use her
& no man can refuse her
she is an angel in the flesh
as she moves from table to table
you reach out to touch her
only to discover too late
she is a mirage
a strange woman passing through
your surreal dreams
lost in twisted misshapen
cold silent corridors
as men & women
wander about naked
having no power to speak-
Having seen all the warning signs
still the hypersensitive
sentimental-lost in the clouds
romantic mad reclusive monk
falls in love with
the golden haired concubine
of the Café Apollinaire
only to lose what's left of his mind
as he goes into a manic state
kneeling at her feet in the café
proclaiming his love
turning the drama into a public spectacle
another side-show attraction
as she refuses profusely
shows him a golden chest
full of mad artist's ears
given to her as tokens of love
lust & desire -
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