Max Ernst

The years 1925–1926 saw Max Ernst explore the maritime theme more frequently. *Green Sea*, with its subtle shades of green, is divided into two parts. The lower section depicts the movement of the water and the waves, achieved through a scraping technique; superimposed upon this, barely visible, is ‘the wheel of the sun’. In the upper section, a sun appears in the green sky above a sharply defined horizon. A sense of nature is ever-present in Ernst’s work. The earth, with its seas, mountains and forests; Life, a whole cosmology, are rendered visually. Max Ernst’s sole focus was painting. “Seeing,” he wrote in a biographical note, “was my primary concern. My eyes were eager not only for the astonishing world that assailed them from without, but also for that other mysterious and unsettling world that sprang forth and vanished in my adolescent dreams with insistence and regularity. ‘Seeing clearly’ became a necessity for my mental equilibrium. And to ‘see clearly’, there was only one way open to me: to fix on paper everything that presented itself to my view, to draw.”

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