I have always thought of Tanguy’s work to depict what life would look like on a gas giant planet… I am blown away by the way some surrealist painters captured what some AI art would look like in the future this was huge with Tanguy as well as Roberto Matta.
I would've loved to see how Tanguy was working instead of just analyzing the results. I bet his process was very meditative, since as you already stated was working very intuitively and without big concepts. Great video, as always :3
Thank you so much for this video. I've been studying Tanguy's work for inspiration. Some of those panning shots, for some reason, made me very emotional. I love this type of work, and it appeals deeply to me and my subconscious.
I REALLY APPRECIATE what you do. It is a service, distinguished, and perceptive. It has really helped me grow and feel welcomed into my subconscious. Changing my perspectives and I feel more human and connected to all. I thank you kindly. Mark😊👍
The Multiplication piece looked like a city was cut down. The white pillars look like they used to hold up a large building. Maybe it's saying when you take down towering corporate buildings you can finally see organic life and humanity in the world.
Yves Tanguy I would say is a true surrealist that evoked a lot of hidden meaning and really evokes the imagination. I was lucky enough to see one of his works at the TATE MODERN many years ago. I saw Indefinite Divisibility which was very interesting but I didn’t know who the artist was until later after I read about him.
As a child looking through the encyclopedia entry on art, I was captivated by a Tanguy dreamscape. The seemingly infinite expanse with enigmatic shapes seemed at once strange and familiar, as if Tanguy had painted an image from a dream I couldn’t quite remember.
So well done. Articulated, open, and an invitation to explore a Man, who is, and has long time been, a favorite inspiration. A Man whose every brush owns my breath.
Tanguy always electrified my imagination, even when I first discovered him as a kid. Seemed as if Dali wanted to do what Tanguy did, but somehow failed. Tanguy was one of a kind. Still fascinates me, and I can examine his works for hours...
It's very refreshing to know that a semi-megalomaniacal semi-narcissist like Salvador Dali could actually be so honest in his admission to another artist's influence. Please don't get the wrong idea: I like Dali quite a lot, but the guy did have a monster-sized ego---as he himself occasionally conceded.
5:23 Mama Papa is Wounded: I always thought of the long spike to the right was Papa and the gray cloud was his trauma, a spread of blood or even the exhaust from a war machine. I also saw the cactus-like figure as Mama and that she was coming to embrace Papa. I thought the little beans in the center were the children, with the smallest one being so young that it's just floating and not even grounded like the other figures.
I enjoyed your insightful video on the work of Yves Tanguy who depicted things never-before-seen with convincing realism. There is one detail concerning his painting, “Rose of the four winds” you may have missed. Since French was his mother tongue, this title must be his own English translation of “Rose des vents” which is a term more often rendered in English as “compass rose” - the name given to that ubiquitous device featured on ancient nautical charts indicating the cardinal directions and therefore permitting the determination of wind direction for navigational purposes. What is striking is the dominant tower and the homogeneously strewn array of jumbled objects beneath it in an otherwise featureless world. Could the tower be the indicator of North? But does the concept of North even exist in this alien landscape? And are all other directions meaningless and void, spread flat in the jumble beneath?
so, just a head's up; when you put the titles bottom-centre they are obscured by the closed captions meaning to see them the video has to be paused and the subtitles turned off to read them
The amorphous dark mass on the upper right is a woman’s shoulders and flowing hair looking out from the viewer. But wtf do I know? He’s been one of my admired artist since art school.
I live in Toledo, Ohio US. We have one of his paintings (Passage Of A Smile) in our museum. While it’s minor compared to his other stuff, it introduced me to him. I find him soothing, somehow. For me, he was a true surrealist. Salvador Dali was just an attention whore.
Its strange, perhaps its because of psychological issues/resions but i dont see or feel any of the feeling of anxiety or foreboding that someone people talk about in his paintings, they feel comfortable to me, well not uncomfortable anyway. I always feel like im looking at an alien landscape with alien buildings and devices and that its impossible to make sens of them without seeing things we think we know but end up just being pareidolia and yet another unknowable object or device (i should add i dont necessarily mean aliens) Its a confusing feeling but one that makes me want to know more not fear what i dont know.
Noyer indifférent: 'noyer' :to drown, indifférent: indifferent, the title resembles the expression: ' rester indifférent', staying indifferent. On the other hand 'noyer' is also a walnut tree. And 'noyer' can also mean: disappearing into something vast, like space.And 'indifférent' has also a scientific meaning apparently, something that is not influenced by neighboring forces.
A few years ago, I moved into the home of a fellow artist here in rural Japan who has passed on. Her sister, my landlady, gave me a series of art history books that belonged to her. I was just recently working on my proofreading/translation portfolio and decided to use a passage from one one the books... about a piece from Tanguy. The authors proposed that the misty qualities of Tanguy's backgrounds were actually influenced by undersea scenarios, given his seafaring background. I do find that pretty interesting, and since then this line of thought has influenced how I view Tanguy's works, especially his earlier ones. To me, as much as they look dreamlike, they also look as though they're occurring on the bottom of the ocean- instead of some vast, post-apocalyptic wasteland. However, the thing I love about Tanguy and related artists' works is that they can mean so many things to so many people. There isn't one "right" answer, and that's kind of my favorite thing about it.
I totally see it, especially the forms, to me they almost look like sea sponges (specifically deeper sea carnivorous sponges) but the knowledge of them at the time was limited, with most species only being identified recently, really incredible how much they look like either marine or microscopic life, almost reminds me of things like neurons, bacteria etc. under a slide, the eeriness of his work is both beautiful and really unsettling, the heavy shadows have such an aura to them, although in another way, thinking of the era of his life (ww1 and 2) they remind me a lot of those photos of bombed/destroyed buildings, especially homes, with things like furniture, metal pipes, pottery and homewares etc. all broken or ruined, it’s a strange combination of both for me
There's a Yves Tanguy in an exhibit at my work that's sadly being rotated out soon. His work is arguably my favorite out of the entire exhibit, and just seeing it and studying it instead of doing my actual job had influenced my own art into leaning into abstractism and surrealism like his.
Great video as usual. I find with Tanguy’s work that you try to find something recognisable, but, just as you get a handle on it, it slips away leaving you in an enigmatic and quite uncomfortable place. A powerful artist.
The last painting, multiplication of the arcs, is my favorite. It gives me a feeling of loneliness but freedom, simultaneously. Like I could walk through all the structures for years. His art also reminded me of my experience in Arches National Park! Tall, domineering structures in a vast landscape. Makes you feel a certain way. Thanks for another great video!!
Another illuminating video.I have always felt Yves Tanguy was a one off among the surrealists,his paintings to me aren't jarring but strangely calming,his biomorphic vision have a timeless enigma that is unfathomable,there is a stilled poetic air to his art,a sense of live after mankind is long gone.(Matt)P.s you definitely tapped into the visual openendedness of his art,which I feel he infused into his paintings
The light and realism of the objects in the paintings of Tanguy is indeed staggering, given the fact indeed that something non-existent is depicted. Great artist (the influence on Dalî is very noticeable) maybe somewhat underrated? Thank you for sharing.
Thanks a lot Blind Dweller . Perhaps we should listen to " Crippled Symmetry" by Morton Feldman while drifting away , escaping all thought while entering the Tanguy state of mind . Great Video !
This is kind of odd, since I've often described the structural forms in Tanguy's paintings as being "asymmetrical" (which I guess would be a fairly common response). But as a term, "Crippled Symmetry" describes them far far better. Thank you!
Multiplication of the Arcs which I first saw back in the 1970's and Tanguy's other work has always filled me with awe. I have had a long running series of drawings titled Multiplication of the Arcs that have appeared in numerous zines and small press publications spanning several decades. Thank You for making this great video!
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Noyer Indifférent can allude to someone drowning who doesn't care. Suicide by inaction - like someone who falls into the depths and doesn't mind what's to come. A dark thought. This work of his has always made me uncomfortable - I think that waa the point. Looks like we fell deep into water, sinking sinking.. we see our spirit leave and our vision go. But maybe there is still hope. Maybe the spirit isn't ours but a guardian telling us to keep trying- swim swim swim. We haven't yet crossed the line of no return, there is hope. Just my thoughts, I have always loved Yves Tanguy.
I"m always surprised to visit the instagram pages of those in the artist corner. Matej has about 150 followers. The man is basically a master and that's what he gets. Some endless beginner will post low effort sketches daily and will be drowning in attention.
I sometimes have dreams of which I remember only a single scene. That's how i'd describe Tanguy's artwork. A scene in a dream that you remember being a part of but have no sense of familiarity towards. No, I haven't been there, but oh do I know it from somewhere deep inside my head
The Rose of the Four Winds picture reminded me of a war memorial (tall structure on the left) next to a military graveyard (low structures on the right), the light coloured structures under that bruised sky just brought a trip to a cemetery to mind. Good work showing new artists, I enjoyed that section too.
A man goes to a progressive psychiatrist. The psychiatrist explains that he will encourage the man to view famous surrealistic paintings and to interpret their meaning. The man agrees, and the doctor shows him the first painting. “Makes me think of sex” says the man. “OK” replies the shrink, “How about this one?” “Again, sex” says the man. “And this one?” “Sex” repeats the man. This is repeated for all 20 of the paintings, classics by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy and others. Eventually the psychiatrist can’t hold it back: “You know what, you’re a sex maniac!” “Oh, I’m a sex maniac?” Says the man, “you’re the one who’s been showing me all the dirty pictures”
As far as I'm concerned, Tanguy is the uncontested maestro of Surrealist landscape (or "mindscape", as I like to call it), surpassing by leaps the formal illusionistic refinements of Dali and Magritte. You rightly pinpointed Chirico as a primary influence; but whereas the latter's haunted cityscapes---with their fleeting shadowy apparitions, ominously inviting architectures, ambiguous perspectives, and dreamily enigmatic atmospheres---remain grounded in the setting of a familiar and still identifiably human realm, Chirico's admirer formulated a thoroughly alien pictorial vocabulary inhabited by amorphously defined lifeforms and asymmetrical structures carefully rendered in a precise three-dimensional biomorphic style wherein one finds few referents to anything resembling an objectively recognizable human world. I've always been drawn to the way Tanguy's horizons---with their diaphanously milky bands cutting uninterruptedly through the picture plane---evoke an endless extraterrestrial planet whose inner-layered structures bring to mind a distinctly forbording (though not at all earth-like) desert terrain. (And while mulling over the evocation of extra-terrestrial other-worldliness it's apt to point out how a distinct "Tanguy style" had plainly worked itself into the graphic art that came to illustrate so much of pulp science fiction and fantasy. I would invite anyone to examine a representative sampling of paperback SF book and magazine covers from the Fifties, Sixties, and into the Seventies. I think you'll see what I mean.) (And by way of closing, allow me to offer a boffo suggestion for a possible future segment: I'd love to see you take on the beautifully grotesque & polymorphously perverse art and no doubt still controversial legacy of Hans "The Dollmaker" Bellmer. Now there's a genuinely subversive artist to challenge every type of sensibility.)
Dweller, love your channel. Was wondering if you’d consider an idea of a video on James Hampton’s Throne Of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. It’s story is worth looking up.
In the first painting, the long tall spiky plant reminds me of a match stick, and the black behind it could be smoke from the flames the match stick created.
The stalk with the hairs in the painting 'Mama, papa is wounded' resembles a burned out match I think, the cloud in the background maybe the result of a fire caused by the match which turned itself into a kind of plant afterwards. 😊 Maybe some some pun is at the base of this painting (it would be typical for the surrealists, who were also inspired by the writings of Raymond Roussel, who used this kind of literary devices)? Interesting to know as well is that Tanguy used matchsticks and sewing threads in his early collages like the work 'Le Phare' (the lighthouse) from 1926, now in Centre Pompidou .
My opinion of the multiplication, if youd like. I feel like it shows the human exploration of earth but not the world. We build relentlessly, creating cities and homes. Yet the sky will always be clear and untamed by man. Planes were common by the 1920s and this was made in the 1950s. But those are only temporary, and we cannot actually build in the air or sky. Thank you!
I like to think *Mama, Papa is Wounded* was just Tanguy doodling then was like, “dude, how hilarious would it be to give this some random, messed-up title, lol.” I’m pretty sure that’s historically accurate.
Love Sage she must have saught a kindred soul cause he was an outward mess. Invoke Jung he will work it out . Not. Yeves died whey Kay suggested a Paris cafe ,causing him to explode because he only had grey paint. The divisibilty work is merely a comment on the universe and the limits of human comprehension.
In the first painting, I see the smoke as the shape of the head and shoulders of the mother, looking down upon the son, saying that Papa is wounded and the far cactus, the father who is wounded. Thanks very much for your work!
It's funny - I see the cast of characters in Mama Papa is Wounded another way. The terrible grey mass is Papa, leaning against a crutch (covered in hairs, not spikes, as it is his replacement leg). Papa is badly scarred, perhaps disfigured and carries war with him - the beans are bullets, the sagging pillar in his background is the ruins. The lines joining the black flames on the ground between Papa and Mama are the lines of communication of the news. She is still far away, in a place without war, imagining a wounded and mentally scarred Papa.
Amazing video!! Would you be able to do a video on Shinji Kanda? I found him through his Pokémon card illustrations funnily enough, but those and the non Pokémon art he’s made is absolutely surreal, alien, and fantastic 😊
Thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist, I'm very surprised to have never heard of him! On the note of surreal and untangible art, I would love to see works of Ivan Seal to be discussed on your channel someday ❤
Thank you for this insightful interpretation of Yves work. I absolutely agree that the disconnected artifacts in the 1st painting depict Emotions - All emotions have impact, but some leave greater shadows on the soul. . I strive in my own drawings which have evolved over the last 2 years, to depict emotions in many ways. Yves and other surrealists seem to have mastered this already. Indefinite Divisablilty appears like a prophetic view of recent - as AI learned to create art.
I hope someone makes an insane video game that Let's the player wander through a vast array of obscure surrealist art environments. Really play with the human senses of perception, scale, emotions, perspectives.. It could be a new era of the LSD dream simulator?
About The Mama, Papa Is Wounded: the white pebble which casts a shadow underneath it, to me, looks more like a bug entangled and wrapped in the web, thus being the Papa. Caught in something? In the current times post war?
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One of my favorite artists. Thank you Blind Dweller.
You must do a video on Hans Bellmer at some point. His art seems like it would really suit a video on this channel.
Great suggestion, his work is extremely thought-provoking!
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I have always thought of Tanguy’s work to depict what life would look like on a gas giant planet… I am blown away by the way some surrealist painters captured what some AI art would look like in the future this was huge with Tanguy as well as Roberto Matta.
I would've loved to see how Tanguy was working instead of just analyzing the results.
I bet his process was very meditative, since as you already stated was working very intuitively and without big concepts.
Great video, as always :3
Thank you so much for this video. I've been studying Tanguy's work for inspiration. Some of those panning shots, for some reason, made me very emotional. I love this type of work, and it appeals deeply to me and my subconscious.
You pick the best artists, thank you!
I was wondering who pinched who, figures. The "beans" gave it up.
The bonus artist makes beautiful art too.
I REALLY APPRECIATE what you do. It is a service, distinguished, and perceptive. It has really helped me grow and feel welcomed into my subconscious. Changing my perspectives and I feel more human and connected to all.
I thank you kindly.
Mark😊👍
Love your videos Blind Dweller!
Absolutely fascinating artist, thank you for introducing him to us.
The Multiplication piece looked like a city was cut down. The white pillars look like they used to hold up a large building. Maybe it's saying when you take down towering corporate buildings you can finally see organic life and humanity in the world.
Yves Tanguy I would say is a true surrealist that evoked a lot of hidden meaning and really evokes the imagination. I was lucky enough to see one of his works at the TATE MODERN many years ago. I saw Indefinite Divisibility which was very interesting but I didn’t know who the artist was until later after I read about him.
As a child looking through the encyclopedia entry on art, I was captivated by a Tanguy dreamscape. The seemingly infinite expanse with enigmatic shapes seemed at once strange and familiar, as if Tanguy had painted an image from a dream I couldn’t quite remember.
So well done. Articulated, open, and an invitation to explore a Man, who is, and has long time been, a favorite inspiration. A Man whose every brush owns my breath.
Tanguy always electrified my imagination, even when I first discovered him as a kid. Seemed as if Dali wanted to do what Tanguy did, but somehow failed. Tanguy was one of a kind. Still fascinates me, and I can examine his works for hours...
Great presentation! Your vids are the best!
Salvador Dali to Yves Tanguy's neice:
"I stole everything I know from your uncle Yves."
It's very refreshing to know that a semi-megalomaniacal semi-narcissist like Salvador Dali could actually be so honest in his admission to another artist's influence. Please don't get the wrong idea: I like Dali quite a lot, but the guy did have a monster-sized ego---as he himself occasionally conceded.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
22:48 to me, that vague shape in the sky looks like some far away nebula that's barely visible, obscured by the polluted atmosphere
Fascinating. I heard of the artist through a J.G. Ballard story called The Drought.
Non lo conoscevo...è strabiliante come sia in molti modi affine a me.grazie
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5:23 Mama Papa is Wounded: I always thought of the long spike to the right was Papa and the gray cloud was his trauma, a spread of blood or even the exhaust from a war machine. I also saw the cactus-like figure as Mama and that she was coming to embrace Papa. I thought the little beans in the center were the children, with the smallest one being so young that it's just floating and not even grounded like the other figures.
I enjoyed your insightful video on the work of Yves Tanguy who depicted things never-before-seen with convincing realism. There is one detail concerning his painting, “Rose of the four winds” you may have missed. Since French was his mother tongue, this title must be his own English translation of “Rose des vents” which is a term more often rendered in English as “compass rose” - the name given to that ubiquitous device featured on ancient nautical charts indicating the cardinal directions and therefore permitting the determination of wind direction for navigational purposes. What is striking is the dominant tower and the homogeneously strewn array of jumbled objects beneath it in an otherwise featureless world. Could the tower be the indicator of North? But does the concept of North even exist in this alien landscape? And are all other directions meaningless and void, spread flat in the jumble beneath?
so, just a head's up; when you put the titles bottom-centre they are obscured by the closed captions meaning to see them the video has to be paused and the subtitles turned off to read them
I always wondered if Yves Tanguy had tan lines 🤔
He certainly talked in tangents.
Tangibly so.
Dude had tan lines clear up his wazoo. Believe it.
The amorphous dark mass on the upper right is a woman’s shoulders and flowing hair looking out from the viewer. But wtf do I know?
He’s been one of my admired artist since art school.
I live in Toledo, Ohio US. We have one of his paintings (Passage Of A Smile) in our museum. While it’s minor compared to his other stuff, it introduced me to him.
I find him soothing, somehow. For me, he was a true surrealist. Salvador Dali was just an attention whore.
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Its strange, perhaps its because of psychological issues/resions but i dont see or feel any of the feeling of anxiety or foreboding that someone people talk about in his paintings, they feel comfortable to me, well not uncomfortable anyway.
I always feel like im looking at an alien landscape with alien buildings and devices and that its impossible to make sens of them without seeing things we think we know but end up just being pareidolia and yet another unknowable object or device (i should add i dont necessarily mean aliens)
Its a confusing feeling but one that makes me want to know more not fear what i dont know.
Salvador Dali influenced or the other way around? The style is really similar in a lot of works.
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Noyer indifférent: 'noyer' :to drown, indifférent: indifferent, the title resembles the expression: ' rester indifférent', staying indifferent. On the other hand 'noyer' is also a walnut tree. And 'noyer' can also mean: disappearing into something vast, like space.And 'indifférent' has also a scientific meaning apparently, something that is not influenced by neighboring forces.
The use of space & angles implies affine geometry.
Many of the shapes give me the impression that he may have been trapped on a boat with nothing but an anatomy book and a mathematician.
There was a period in my life where him and Kay Sage were the only artists I cared about
He evoked all, in the most beautiful way.
damn looks very alike to salvador dali
These paintings remind me of those "name one item in this picture" AI images.
My interpretation: hallucinations from eating too many spiders.
It's frozen on the inside
Why do they remind me of spogebob
Ok but you're absolutely right and I can't unsee it
Other people's opinions are just as valid? Madness ;)
For a Tanguy, quite pale.
Am I the only one who sees the cactus with a blade sticking out of its arm😭
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I dont know why you seem so angry in your commentary
this is very derivative of Salvador Dali
A blatant ripoff of Dali.
Dali was inspired by him
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Can they... Could they... Do they?
He crossed the Atlantic for Kay.
A few years ago, I moved into the home of a fellow artist here in rural Japan who has passed on. Her sister, my landlady, gave me a series of art history books that belonged to her. I was just recently working on my proofreading/translation portfolio and decided to use a passage from one one the books... about a piece from Tanguy. The authors proposed that the misty qualities of Tanguy's backgrounds were actually influenced by undersea scenarios, given his seafaring background. I do find that pretty interesting, and since then this line of thought has influenced how I view Tanguy's works, especially his earlier ones. To me, as much as they look dreamlike, they also look as though they're occurring on the bottom of the ocean- instead of some vast, post-apocalyptic wasteland. However, the thing I love about Tanguy and related artists' works is that they can mean so many things to so many people. There isn't one "right" answer, and that's kind of my favorite thing about it.
I totally see it, especially the forms, to me they almost look like sea sponges (specifically deeper sea carnivorous sponges) but the knowledge of them at the time was limited, with most species only being identified recently, really incredible how much they look like either marine or microscopic life, almost reminds me of things like neurons, bacteria etc. under a slide, the eeriness of his work is both beautiful and really unsettling, the heavy shadows have such an aura to them, although in another way, thinking of the era of his life (ww1 and 2) they remind me a lot of those photos of bombed/destroyed buildings, especially homes, with things like furniture, metal pipes, pottery and homewares etc. all broken or ruined, it’s a strange combination of both for me
There's a Yves Tanguy in an exhibit at my work that's sadly being rotated out soon. His work is arguably my favorite out of the entire exhibit, and just seeing it and studying it instead of doing my actual job had influenced my own art into leaning into abstractism and surrealism like his.
Great video as usual. I find with Tanguy’s work that you try to find something recognisable, but, just as you get a handle on it, it slips away leaving you in an enigmatic and quite uncomfortable place. A powerful artist.
Maybe the man just like vs n ps and abstract shapes.....sometimes I be throwing random tts in my landscapes
He is the bridge between Dali and Ernst
The featured artist *Matej Kollar* in the closing ...work is incredible
It is. Oh, it is!
Definitely inspired by Bosch and Giger
They're so sci-fi futuristic in a modern way for the time they were made. It gives me chills.
Honestly some of them have a weird modern feeling like coming out of late 90s early 2000 CGI.
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The last painting, multiplication of the arcs, is my favorite. It gives me a feeling of loneliness but freedom, simultaneously. Like I could walk through all the structures for years. His art also reminded me of my experience in Arches National Park! Tall, domineering structures in a vast landscape. Makes you feel a certain way. Thanks for another great video!!
great video, keep it up
I love the art of Kollar shown at the end. Reminds me of MSDOS games and metal album covers.
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Another illuminating video.I have always felt Yves Tanguy was a one off among the surrealists,his paintings to me aren't jarring but strangely calming,his biomorphic vision have a timeless enigma that is unfathomable,there is a stilled poetic air to his art,a sense of live after mankind is long gone.(Matt)P.s you definitely tapped into the visual openendedness of his art,which I feel he infused into his paintings
what is the name of the track you used in the beginning? Ty! Amazing choice and fits the paintings atmosphere perfectly.
The light and realism of the objects in the paintings of Tanguy is indeed staggering, given the fact indeed that something non-existent is depicted. Great artist (the influence on Dalî is very noticeable) maybe somewhat underrated? Thank you for sharing.
I see I have something remarkably in common w/ *Tanguy* ... we have the same hairstyle🤔
Thanks a lot Blind Dweller . Perhaps we should listen to " Crippled Symmetry" by Morton Feldman while drifting away , escaping all thought while entering the Tanguy state of mind . Great Video !
This is kind of odd, since I've often described the structural forms in Tanguy's paintings as being "asymmetrical" (which I guess would be a fairly common response). But as a term, "Crippled Symmetry" describes them far far better. Thank you!
Multiplication of the Arcs which I first saw back in the 1970's and Tanguy's other work has always filled me with awe. I have had a long running series of drawings titled Multiplication of the Arcs that have appeared in numerous zines and small press publications spanning several decades. Thank You for making this great video!
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I wish you would consider doing a video on painter Phillip C. Curtis, Wilfredo Lam as well as things like Survival Research Laboratories.
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Love his art! Big fan 👍
Noyer Indifférent can allude to someone drowning who doesn't care. Suicide by inaction - like someone who falls into the depths and doesn't mind what's to come. A dark thought. This work of his has always made me uncomfortable - I think that waa the point. Looks like we fell deep into water, sinking sinking.. we see our spirit leave and our vision go. But maybe there is still hope. Maybe the spirit isn't ours but a guardian telling us to keep trying- swim swim swim. We haven't yet crossed the line of no return, there is hope.
Just my thoughts, I have always loved Yves Tanguy.
Where I get that is the French for Noyer (drowning) and Indifférent (same as English, indifferent)
Please do Nam June Paik.
I always listen to your videos when I paint. It’s a very powerful experience. Thank you for saving my passion from the void.
shades of Salvador Dali, with a slight flavor of Picasso....
And now I see why! LOL, Dangit, Dali.
I"m always surprised to visit the instagram pages of those in the artist corner.
Matej has about 150 followers. The man is basically a master and that's what he gets.
Some endless beginner will post low effort sketches daily and will be drowning in attention.
I sometimes have dreams of which I remember only a single scene. That's how i'd describe Tanguy's artwork. A scene in a dream that you remember being a part of but have no sense of familiarity towards. No, I haven't been there, but oh do I know it from somewhere deep inside my head
It's always nice to see people talking about one of my favourite painters ever.
It’s nice to see such an in depth video on Tanguy but I cannot handle the narrator’s quasi seductive upspeak
The Rose of the Four Winds picture reminded me of a war memorial (tall structure on the left) next to a military graveyard (low structures on the right), the light coloured structures under that bruised sky just brought a trip to a cemetery to mind.
Good work showing new artists, I enjoyed that section too.
A man goes to a progressive psychiatrist. The psychiatrist explains that he will encourage the man to view famous surrealistic paintings and to interpret their meaning. The man agrees, and the doctor shows him the first painting. “Makes me think of sex” says the man. “OK” replies the shrink, “How about this one?” “Again, sex” says the man. “And this one?” “Sex” repeats the man. This is repeated for all 20 of the paintings, classics by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy and others. Eventually the psychiatrist can’t hold it back: “You know what, you’re a sex maniac!” “Oh, I’m a sex maniac?” Says the man, “you’re the one who’s been showing me all the dirty pictures”
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Excellent work...Tanguay is long overdue. Thanks
As far as I'm concerned, Tanguy is the uncontested maestro of Surrealist landscape (or "mindscape", as I like to call it), surpassing by leaps the formal illusionistic refinements of Dali and Magritte. You rightly pinpointed Chirico as a primary influence; but whereas the latter's haunted cityscapes---with their fleeting shadowy apparitions, ominously inviting architectures, ambiguous perspectives, and dreamily enigmatic atmospheres---remain grounded in the setting of a familiar and still identifiably human realm, Chirico's admirer formulated a thoroughly alien pictorial vocabulary inhabited by amorphously defined lifeforms and asymmetrical structures carefully rendered in a precise three-dimensional biomorphic style wherein one finds few referents to anything resembling an objectively recognizable human world. I've always been drawn to the way Tanguy's horizons---with their diaphanously milky bands cutting uninterruptedly through the picture plane---evoke an endless extraterrestrial planet whose inner-layered structures bring to mind a distinctly forbording (though not at all earth-like) desert terrain.
(And while mulling over the evocation of extra-terrestrial other-worldliness it's apt to point out how a distinct "Tanguy style" had plainly worked itself into the graphic art that came to illustrate so much of pulp science fiction and fantasy. I would invite anyone to examine a representative sampling of paperback SF book and magazine covers from the Fifties, Sixties, and into the Seventies. I think you'll see what I mean.)
(And by way of closing, allow me to offer a boffo suggestion for a possible future segment: I'd love to see you take on the beautifully grotesque & polymorphously perverse art and no doubt still controversial legacy of Hans "The Dollmaker" Bellmer. Now there's a genuinely subversive artist to challenge every type of sensibility.)
Dweller, love your channel. Was wondering if you’d consider an idea of a video on James Hampton’s Throne Of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. It’s story is worth looking up.
In the first painting, the long tall spiky plant reminds me of a match stick, and the black behind it could be smoke from the flames the match stick created.
The stalk with the hairs in the painting 'Mama, papa is wounded' resembles a burned out match I think, the cloud in the background maybe the result of a fire caused by the match which turned itself into a kind of plant afterwards. 😊 Maybe some some pun is at the base of this painting (it would be typical for the surrealists, who were also inspired by the writings of Raymond Roussel, who used this kind of literary devices)? Interesting to know as well is that Tanguy used matchsticks and sewing threads in his early collages like the work 'Le Phare' (the lighthouse) from 1926, now in Centre Pompidou .
My opinion of the multiplication, if youd like. I feel like it shows the human exploration of earth but not the world. We build relentlessly, creating cities and homes. Yet the sky will always be clear and untamed by man. Planes were common by the 1920s and this was made in the 1950s. But those are only temporary, and we cannot actually build in the air or sky.
Thank you!
I like to think *Mama, Papa is Wounded* was just Tanguy doodling then was like, “dude, how hilarious would it be to give this some random, messed-up title, lol.”
I’m pretty sure that’s historically accurate.
Love Sage she must have saught a kindred soul cause he was an outward mess. Invoke Jung he will work it out . Not. Yeves died whey Kay suggested a Paris cafe ,causing him to explode because he only had grey paint. The divisibilty work is merely a comment on the universe and the limits of human comprehension.
I've always been intrigued by Tanguy's works.
Some other artists that draw me are Matta and De Kooning. Have you made videos about them?
In the first painting, I see the smoke as the shape of the head and shoulders of the mother, looking down upon the son, saying that Papa is wounded and the far cactus, the father who is wounded. Thanks very much for your work!
I can definitely see that now that you mention it! Thanks for sharing 🙏
It's funny - I see the cast of characters in Mama Papa is Wounded another way.
The terrible grey mass is Papa, leaning against a crutch (covered in hairs, not spikes, as it is his replacement leg). Papa is badly scarred, perhaps disfigured and carries war with him - the beans are bullets, the sagging pillar in his background is the ruins.
The lines joining the black flames on the ground between Papa and Mama are the lines of communication of the news. She is still far away, in a place without war, imagining a wounded and mentally scarred Papa.
Amazing video!! Would you be able to do a video on Shinji Kanda? I found him through his Pokémon card illustrations funnily enough, but those and the non Pokémon art he’s made is absolutely surreal, alien, and fantastic 😊
His painting looks like those 3d objects in animation making idk how to explain it
Brilliant video as always. What’s the background music? Ambient and industrial. I love it
Thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist, I'm very surprised to have never heard of him!
On the note of surreal and untangible art, I would love to see works of Ivan Seal to be discussed on your channel someday ❤
Thank you for this insightful interpretation of Yves work. I absolutely agree that the disconnected artifacts in the 1st painting depict Emotions - All emotions have impact, but some leave greater shadows on the soul. . I strive in my own drawings which have evolved over the last 2 years, to depict emotions in many ways. Yves and other surrealists seem to have mastered this already. Indefinite Divisablilty appears like a prophetic view of recent - as AI learned to create art.
I hope someone makes an insane video game that Let's the player wander through a vast array of obscure surrealist art environments. Really play with the human senses of perception, scale, emotions, perspectives.. It could be a new era of the LSD dream simulator?
About The Mama, Papa Is Wounded: the white pebble which casts a shadow underneath it, to me, looks more like a bug entangled and wrapped in the web, thus being the Papa. Caught in something? In the current times post war?