| Style | Surrealism |
| Lived | January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955 ( 20th century ) |
| Nationality | France, USA |
| Biography |
Yves Tanguy Biography |
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Yves Tanguy's paintings show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoeba suddenly turned to stone.
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| Quote | "The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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Yves Tanguy married the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in 1940, which also gave him the American nationality.
Yves Tanguy always said that his inspiration to became an artist arose when he saw a painting by De Chirico in 1923.
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