Maternity - Dorothea Tanning
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Description
Dorothea Tanning's "Maternity" presents a dreamlike scene of motherhood in a desolate landscape, rendered in a muted palette. The open doorways and ambiguous spaces contribute to the painting's unsettling atmosphere.
Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was an American painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism, and she later developed a more individual style. Tanning was married to the Surrealist artist Max Ernst for 30 years. Her work often explores themes of dreams, desire, and the subconscious. She is known for her unsettling and dreamlike imagery. In "Maternity", Tanning presents a stark, dreamlike scene. A woman, draped in white, stands in a desolate landscape, cradling a child. Another child lies on a blanket at her feet. The background features open doorways leading to ambiguous spaces, a common motif in Surrealist art. The colour palette is muted, dominated by yellows, browns, and greys, which contributes to the painting's unsettling atmosphere. The figures are rendered with a degree of realism, yet the overall composition defies logic, creating a sense of unease and mystery. The painting evokes themes of motherhood, isolation, and the uncanny.
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Maternity - Dorothea Tanning
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Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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