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"Multiplicatiion of the Arcs"

Yves Tanguy - 102 x 152 cm


famous painting Multiplicatiion of the Arcs of Yves Tanguy

Size and Style

The Multiplication of the Arcs is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm) [MoMA]. Tanguy's style is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials, which are hallmarks of the Abstract Expressionism art movement [Abstract Expressionism Art Movement].

Date and Location

Tanguy painted The Multiplication of the Arcs in 1954. The painting is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, United States [MoMA].

History

Yves Tanguy was a French painter who was best-known for his misshapen rocks and molten surfaces that lent definition to the Surrealist aesthetic. Self-taught but enormously skilled, Tanguy painted a hyper-real world with exacting precision [TheArtStory]. During 1952 and 1953, Tanguy produced a marvelous series of drawings, but few paintings, in part because of ill health, in part because he and his wife traveled abroad to attend the openings of their solo exhibitions in Paris and Rome. However, back in Woodbury, to his vast relief, he began to work again, painting the fine The Mirage of Time, and the two sparkling little canvases, Saltimbanques and Where Are You?. During the final months of his life, Tanguy completed what is almost certainly the greatest work of his entire, dedicated career -- The Multiplication of the Arcs [Yves Tanguy].

Location and Significance

The Multiplication of the Arcs is a masterpiece that evokes a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with airborne objects casting dark shadows. The cactus-like shape tethered to a geometric spider-web, and floating near the horizon, seems neither captive nor fully free. Typical of the relationship between words and images in Surrealism, the title complicates rather than clarifies the meaning of the work [Yves Tanguy]. The painting is a high-octane blend of fact and fiction, with masterful manipulations of scale and perspective, and keen observations of the natural world contributing to its hallucinatory effect.
  • The Multiplication of the Arcs by Yves Tanguy is a masterpiece of Abstract Expressionism art movement.
  • The painting measures 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm) and is housed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, United States.
  • Tanguy painted The Multiplication of the Arcs in 1954, during the final months of his life.
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[MoMA]
[TheArtStory] https://acravan.blogspot.com/2011/02/boneyard-of-world-multiplication-of.html
[Yves Tanguy]
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