Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012)
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A propos de l'auteur
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 & learned to paint by visiting art museums. She attended Knox college, studied art in Chicago & in 1935 moved to New York City, where she supported herself with advertising art & painted in her spare time. A preoccupation with architecture, especially afficher plus doors, windows & deep tunneling spaces, is a keynote of her style. Before & after her marriage to Max ernst she was occupied with stage & costume design for the likes of George Balachine & others. (Publisher Provided) Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg, Illinois on August 25, 1910. She attended art school in Chicago, but left to study informally on her own by roaming the Art Institute there. She was a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s and also dabbled in sculpture. She was married for 30 years to the Surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst. She also created ballet designs for George Balanchine, etchings for illustrated books, and the design of a house for herself and Ernst in the south of France. Later in life, she became a poet. Her works include A Table of Content, Coming to That, Chasm: A Weekend, and her autobiography, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. She died on January 31, 2012 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Dorothea Tanning
On paper, 1948-1986 4 exemplaires
Dorothea Tanning, la peinture de 2 exemplaires
Dorothea Tanning: beyond the esplanade : paintings, drawings and prints from 1940 to 1965 1 exemplaire
Dorothea Tanning: Between lives : works on paper : 15 September - 13 October 1989 (1989) 1 exemplaire
Dorothea Tanning 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel (1971) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions; Traducteur, quelques éditions — 84 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Tanning, Dorothea Margaret
- Date de naissance
- 1910-08-25
- Date de décès
- 2012-01-31
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Galesburg, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Galesburg, Illinois, USA
France
Sedona, Arizona, USA - Études
- Knox College
- Professions
- painter
poet
sculptor
set designer
memoirist - Relations
- Ernst, Max (spouse)
- Courte biographie
- Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg, Illinois and attended Knox College in her hometown before going to Chicago to study painting. She haunted the Art Institute seeking to learn all about what painting was. In New York in 1941, she met the art dealer Julien Levy, and his circle of émigré Dadaist and Surrealist friends, many of them refugees from Nazi-occupied France, including Max Ernst. Levy gave Dorothea two one-woman exhibitions (in 1944 and 1948). Max Ernst visited her studio, saw a painting, stayed to play chess, and fell in love. The couple would spend the next 34 years together, marrying in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. Dorothea and Max lived for a time in Sedona, Arizona and by 1956, moved to France, where they divided their time between Paris and the Touraine and Provence countryside. These years included, for Dorothea, a five‐year adventure in making soft fabric sculptures. Max Ernst died in 1976 and Dorothea returned to the USA. Around this time, she began to write poetry, which appeared in a number of literary reviews and magazines, such as The New Yorker. Her published works also included two memoirs, Birthday and Between Lives, a collection of poems, A Table of Content, and a short novel, Chasm.
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Critiques
Another Language of Flowers par Dorothea Tanning
I very much like Tanning's painting, her surrealism, her memoirs. These poems are good poems for a painter.
Tanning is a fascinating person, a self-made artist and poet. Her story deserves to be read widely.
Real and surreal and deep and broad, mundane and poetic. Tanning's prose flows, sometimes almost trite, often sublime. Artists are often awkward with words. She is expert.
A lot of this material appeared in the book Birthday some years before. The last few chapters, where Dorothea discusses her life after the death of Max Ernst, her newfound interest in poetry, the deaths of most of her friends and her surprise and wonder at the fact that she is still alive, and the stupidity of art critics, are particularly good.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 22
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 297
- Popularité
- #78,942
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 30
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 1