Yves Tanguy

[WickJB]

If anyone has or knows of any articles about this artist and his work
please email me or respond in the newsgroup. I saw "The Ensnared Sky" at
the Menil Collection in Houston, Tx and was awed by his talent.

wic...@eworld.com

[Wynnk]

" Tanguy, Yves (1900-1955),French painter. He was self-taught and his
discovery of the work of de Chirico around 1924 was a formative influence.
In 1925 he met Breton and became closely involved with the Surrealist
movement. Thereafter he discovered his characteristic style, employing
minute detail to depict desolate mental landscapes populated by enigmatic
forms, at once organic and mechanical, which cast sharply defined shadows
upon the infinite expanse of teir surroundings (Indefinite
Divisibility,1942, Buffalo, Albright Knox). He settlesd in America in 1939
and married the Surrealist Kay Sage. Though Tanguy's style evolved over
the years, his distinctive motifs remained constant."RandomHouse
Dictionary of Art and Artists.
There are several books and many articles on the Surrealists and Tanguy.
Check your local museum or library.