Yves Tanguy’s birthday was celebrated at Modernnow.
Yves Tanguy came to painting late (in his early 20s) after a work by Giorgio de Chirico fired his imagination and changed his destiny. He taught himself to paint and, at the urging of his friend André Breton, became an enthusiastic member of the Parisian Surrealist movement in 1925. Through constant work, Tanguy quickly gained assurance as a painter, and recognition for his faintly sinister – and purely Surrealistic – landscapes executed in muted colors and filled with mysterious objects.
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