Jimmy Ernst, Five Decades of Just Another American Modernist

Jimmy Ernst is a very good artist, long dead; so you can only pay tribute to him by watching the images below for a while and commenting on them. artnet's Artist Works Catalogues does not encourage (or have the software for) comments on its images.

“Ernst's investigations of hypnotic surfaces involved building impact through pictorial structure. Most significantly, his thoughts were also in step with, or ahead of, emerging ideas about perceptual effects. - Phyllis Braff, from Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal, SpringfieldArt Museum. Springfield, Missouri. (2002)”*

Biological Discovery (1944)

Landscape with Pinetree (1958)

Equations (1965)

Exile (1974)

Sea of Grass (1983)

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