The Palace of the Windowed Rocks

Le Palais aux rochers de fenetres (The Palace of the Windowed Rocks)
Artist Yves Tanguy
Year 1942
Medium Oil on canvas
Movement Surrealism
Dimensions 163 cm × 132 cm (64 in × 52 in)
Location Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France[1]

The Palace of the Windowed Rocks (French: Le Palais aux rochers de fenetres) is a 1942 painting by French surrealist painter Yves Tanguy.[2][3]

Description

The title of the painting is comes from the influence of the Atlas Mountains in Tanguy's work, which he referred to as "castles".[4] The canvas has been described as depicting a desolate lunar landscape that shows, "a world that only looks as if it were real but appears as a coherence of facts put together with unshakable necessity...and it realizes a kind of world experiencing with correlative objects that seem to be real (comparable to a trompe-l'œil) although they can never be found in the real world (contrary to a trompe-l'œil)."[2]

Influence

Writer and gallery curator Mike Evans has called The Palace of the Windowed Rocks Tanguy's most famous painting.[5] The painting was used by Penguin Books for the 1965 paperback cover of J. G. Ballard's post-apocalyptic novel The Drowned World.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Pate Havlice, Patricia (1995). World Painting Index: Titles of works and their painters - Volume 2 of World Painting Index: Second Supplement, 1980-1989. University of Virginia: Scarecrow Press. p. 1563. ISBN 9780810830202.
  2. 1 2 Ranier Sepp, Hans. "Possible Necessities. A Phenomenological Analysis of Yves Tanguy's The Palace of the Windowed Rocks". Phenomenology 2010. 4 (2011): 493–502. doi:10.7761/9789731997728.20. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  3. ↑ von Maur, Karin (2001). Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Englische Ausgabe. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Company KG. p. 101, 223. ISBN 978-1-68325-473-7.
  4. ↑ Brodskaya, Natalia (2018). Surrealism. Paris. p. 344. ISBN 978-1-68325-473-7.
  5. ↑ Evans, Mike (2008). Defining Moments in Art: Over a Century of the Greatest Artists, Exhibitions, People, Artworks, and Events that Rocked the Art World. Cassell Illustrated. p. 344. ISBN 9781844036400.
  6. ↑ Matthews, Nicole; Moody, Nickianne, eds. (2007). Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing. Burington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7546-5731-6.
  7. ↑ Bould, Mark; Butler, Andrew M.; Roberts, Adam; Vint, Sherryl, eds. (2009). Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. New York, NY: Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-415-43949-7.
  8. ↑ Baxter, John (2001). The Inner Man: The Life of J.G. Ballard. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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