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  • Riffing on artistic "styles" as diverse as the portraiture of Diego Velázquez and Jean-Dominique Ingres, the Surrealism of Yves Tanguy and Giorgio de Chirico, Francisco de Goya's grotesques, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's absurdist figures and Pablo Picasso's Rose period, Cubism and classicism (as well as Sesame Street and Looney Tunes), Mr. Condo (b. 1957) produces a clownish mishmash of masters and pop culture.

    Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011

  • After his first show in Barcelona, his drawing ability won praise from Picasso, and by the late 1920s, he had fallen for an older woman and fallen in with a set of poets and artists in Paris like Yves Tanguy who shared a fascination with the dreamlike terrain of the subconscious.

    The Lust for Late 2010

  • The next year, he gave a series of highly influential lectures on Surrealism at the New School in Greenwich Village, and among the audience members were young American painters and European refugees, including William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Jimmy Ernst, Arshile Gorky and Yves Tanguy.

    Netherworld Chic, Surreal Impressions Lance Esplund 2010

  • I like Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, and that whole Surrealist crowd.

    Diane Tucker: Artist Tim Burke Recycles Detroit History, And Rescues Himself (PHOTOS) 2009

  • During the two years that she ran the gallery, Guggenheim Jeune showcased artists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Arps, Kandinksy (his first one man show in England), Yves Tanguy (with whom she had an affair), and Wolfgang Paalen.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • In her affinity for miniaturism and her desire to make an art about her own past or her fears, she was also on the same track, although not moving at the same speed, as a number of artists associated with Dada or Surrealism, including Dalì, Max Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.

    Much Prettier 2009

  • "Surreal Things" shows 250 objects exploring the influence of surrealism on design for furniture, jewellery, textiles and film with works by Magritte, Dali, Yves Tanguy and others.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

  • Of the big three artists, my favorite was Richard Powers, who was strongly influenced by the Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy.

    On Non-Representational Art James Killus 2007

  • Of the big three artists, my favorite was Richard Powers, who was strongly influenced by the Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy.

    Archive 2007-08-01 James Killus 2007

  • As a consequence of this radical manipulation of the figure, these photographs seem at times more like studies of sculptural form than depictions of the human body: They remind us of certain aspects of the sculpture of Brancusi and Arp and Henry Moore, as well as the paintings of Yves Tanguy.

    Englishman Bill Brandt Photographed Blitz And Contorted Nudes 2004

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