The Truth About Comets - Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning's "The Truth About Comets" presents a surreal, snow-covered scene with serpentine figures and a staircase leading nowhere, capturing the enigmatic and dreamlike qualities of her Surrealist style.
Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was an American painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was Surrealist, influenced by a 1936 exhibition of Dada and Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and her marriage to fellow Surrealist Max Ernst. Her paintings of the 1940s often depict dreamlike scenarios and uncanny figures in precise, academic style. Later, her style became looser and more abstract. She also produced soft sculpture and wrote poetry and memoirs. In "The Truth About Comets", a snow-covered scene is dominated by a bare tree and a staircase leading nowhere. Two figures with serpentine tails stand in the foreground. One figure, wearing a red hat, approaches the staircase. The other, with blonde hair and a pink hat, stands further away. Two comets streak across the sky, adding to the painting's enigmatic atmosphere. The colour palette is muted, with greys, whites, and browns dominating the scene. The overall effect is one of mystery and unease, typical of Tanning's Surrealist style.
The Truth About Comets - Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning
a Surrealist painter who married Max Ernst in a double wedding with Man Ray, then became a published poet at ninety-four and died at a hundred and one
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