Paysage is one of Ernst's first great series of paintings made between 1921 and 1923, to transfer the technique of collage into the medium of paint. Among the earliest of Ernst's paintings to make use of the disjunctive effect he had discovered in collage to reveal strange and troubling distortions of reality, Paysage is a work that, like Ernst collages, seems to articulate a hidden order or language of poetic association underlying the apparently deceptive world of surface appearances. Paysage seems to be apparently a normal landscape scene at twilight. Hidden within this picture, however, is the sense that, with the coming of dusk strange creatures will emerge. The rocks, as mentioned above, appear to be growing eyes, the strange plant-like form in the foreground appears to have something anthropomorphic about it and even the clouds seem on the point of metamorphosing into one of Ernst's later hordes.
About the Canvas Prints
Countryside (Paysage) by Max Ernst. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.