Monty Python's ancestor. (Max Ernst, Dada artist, Tate Gallery, London, England)

The Economist (US) | March 16, 1991 | Copyright

MOST painters of the 1920s revered Cezanne as the great forefather of modern art, but not Max Ernst. "Everybody loves everybody's Cezanne," he complained, "but they turn their backs with disgust on the brilliant drawings in pissoirs. In fact, as a new retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London shows, Ernst objected to the very ideas of reverence and greatness in art. Throughout his long career he deliberately set himself up as an imp of the perverse, or, in his own characteristics phrase, "the male mother of methodical madness".

Ernst's scepticism about the ...

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