Of This Men Shall Know Nothing

Von diesem wissen Männer nichts
English: Of This Men Shall Know Nothing
Artist Max Ernst
Year 1923
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81 cm × 64 cm (32 in × 25 in)
Location Tate Gallery, London

Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (German: Von diesem wissen Männer nichts) is oil on canvas painting by a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet Max Ernst. The painting was completed in 1923 in Paris, France. It is created on Surrealism style by use of symbolic painting genre during First French period. The painting measure 81 by 64 centimeters and is now housed at Tate Gallery, London.[1]

Description

The painting shares several features with Silberer’s diagram: its landscape setting and low horizon; the gradation of the sky from light at the bottom to dark at the top; and the inclusion of the sun and the moon. Ernst replaced the cube of Primal Matter with a pile of entrails.[2] Elsewhere Ernst also employed alchemical motifs, such as in this painting of the sexual conjunction of Sun and Moon.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Tate Gallery
  2. ↑ Alchemy in contemporary art By Urszula Szulakowska, ISBN 0-7546-6736-7
  3. ↑ Max Ernst and alchemy: a magician in search of a myth By M. E. Warlick, ISBN 0-2927-9136-4
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