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Tanguy, Yves
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Tanguy, Yves (1900–55). French-born painter who became an American citizen in 1948. Whilst working at various odd jobs in Paris he began sketching café scenes that were praised by
Vlaminck, and in 1923 he decided to take up art seriously after being greatly impressed by the work of
de Chirico; he had no formal artistic training. In 1925 he met
André Breton and joined the
Surrealist group. His work developed quickly and by the time of his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Surréaliste in 1927, he had already created a distinctive style. Characteristically he painted in a scrupulous technique reminiscent of that of
Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring marine- or lunar-like landscapes whose ghostly plains are scattered with structures that suggest giant weathered bones arranged into fantastic pylons. In 1939 he met the American Surrealist painter Kay
Sage in Paris; he followed her to the USA and they married in 1940. After the Second World War he built up an international reputation.
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NUCLEAR ENERGY: 1993 A "GOOD YEAR" FOR SAFETY IN FRANCE
Newspaper article from: Europe Energy; 2/4/1994; 688 words
; ...ElectricitC de France (EDF), Pierre-Yves Tanguy, remarked as he presented his sixth annual report on January 19. Mr Tanguy noted that there was little discussion...year, which is still too many, Mr Tanguy commented. The number of automatic...
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A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...by her second husband, the artist Yves Tanguy, she was often shoved around the...Contact with French surrealist Tanguy stimulated her imagination and her...such coarse language from a woman; Tanguy, however, apparently enjoyed the...
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China Eggs/Les Oeufs de Porcelaine.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...by her second husband, the artist Yves Tanguy, she was often shoved around the...Contact with French surrealist Tanguy stimulated her imagination and her...such coarse language from a woman; Tanguy, however, apparently enjoyed the...
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BEAUTY FIRMS DABBLE IN ART.(Yves Saint Laurent Parfums Corp.'s sponsor of art exhibitions)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: WWD; 1/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...having a brush with beauty. Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, L...sponsoring art exhibitions here. Yves Saint Laurent Parfums is feting...photographers Seb Janiak and Tanguy Loyzance, to reinterpret different...to a poem penned by designer Yves Saint Laurent for Opium's...
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PAISAJES Y POESIA.(España)(TT: Landscapes and poetry.)(TA: Spain)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 12/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...interior de tres grandes artistas del siglo XX: Paul Klee, Yves Tanguy y Joan Mir. "El rasgo comn que tienen los tres es que...tuvo. Su obra resulta difcilmente clasificable. De Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) nunca se haba expuesto tanta obra en...
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Manfred Pernice: Regen Projects.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and reproductions of paintings by Yves Tanguy. (Two display boards of painted...to the design of public spaces to Tanguy's landscapes, all seem to level...mannerism that eventually plagued Tanguy, whose paintings of imagined forms...
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Manfred Pernice
Magazine article from: Artforum; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and reproductions of paintings by Yves Tanguy. (Two display hoards of painted...to the design of public spaces to Tanguy s landscapes, all seem to level...mannerism that eventually plagued Tanguy, whose paintings of imagined forms...
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Surreal prices for Surrealists
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/7/2001; ; 606 words
; ...of the 1920s and '30s, including Tanguy, Magritte, Dali, Ernst, Masson...220,000) Proesepe, 1929, by Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), was a personal...Title Unknown, 1929, also by Tanguy (400,000- 600,000) once belonged...
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Surrealist Matta Makes Impression On Chicago Art
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/14/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...work was influenced by his friend Yves Tanguy. Both explore a desolate mental...populated by enigmatic forms. But where Tanguy's images evoke a disquieting existential...as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Tanguy and the future Abstract Expressionists...
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The shock of the schlock
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...chance of that here. A fine little Yves Tanguy landscape and an early Salvador Dali...the press of the 1930s. Dali and Tanguy made the most of the dream milieu...world turned its back on him. As for Tanguy, he kept more or less repeating...
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Yves Tanguy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Yves Tanguy Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) was a French surrealist painter who specialized in strange osseous and vegetal formations placed in a barren, lunarlike landscape or an eerie underwater setting. Born in Paris on Jan. 5, 1900, to Breton...
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Tanguy, Yves
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Tanguy, Yves (1900–1955). French-born painter who became an American...rock formations he saw in Africa during his merchant navy days). In 1939 Tanguy met the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in Paris; he followed her...
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Prévert, Jacques
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...ville in eastern France he befriended Yves Tanguy, who would later become a Surrealist...supported himself, Prévert, Tanguy, and their girlfriends as they hung...friend, Simone Dienne, and he, Tanguy, and Duhamel were introduced to...
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Sage, Kay
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...her work. In 1937 she moved to Paris, where she met Yves Tanguy in 1939. He followed her to the USA in 1940 and they...also made mixed-media constructions and wrote poetry. Tanguy's sudden death in 1955 cast a shadow over her last years...
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McLaren, Norman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and key, fork and spoon, and moth and flame, dancing through a landscape inspired by the surrealist paintings of Yves Tanguy. According to Americas, the British postmaster suppressed the film, declaring it "too Freudian," and it was not...
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