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Birth
1900 (Paris, France)
Death
1955 (Woodbury, Connecticut)
Lived/Active
Connecticut / France
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surreal vegetal landscape painting
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| Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring strange landscapes in which amorphous objects proliferate in a haunted dream world. His paintings often had indefinable inhabitants, casting long shadows across a landscape, in a meticulously detaile (showing 500 of 2699 characters). |
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