The Wood (Max Ernst)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The Wood | |
---|---|
File:Max Ernst's The Wood.jpg | |
Artist | Max Ernst |
Year | 1927 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 60.5 cm × 81.5 cm (23.82 in × 32.09 in) |
Location | National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff |
The Wood (1927) is a painting by the German surrealist Max Ernst.
Ernst was haunted by the atmosphere of forests and by the birds which inhabit them. Here, the herring-bone effect of the trees and the grainy sky reveal his technique of grattage. Layers of paint were applied to the canvas, which was pressed against a sheet of stamped metal and a rough plank and scraped. This work was given to the Contemporary Art Society by Miss A.F. Brown in 1940, and was acquired by the National Museum of Wales in 1991, where it is currently on display.
Sources
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Pages using infobox artwork with the backcolor parameter
- Paintings by Max Ernst
- Surrealist paintings
- 1927 paintings
- Paintings in the collection of National Museum Cardiff
- Birds in art
- All stub articles
- 20th-century painting stubs