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Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) is an American surrealist painter, sculptor, writer and poet. An important participant and witness of surrealism and Dadaism. She is a friend of marcel duchamp, salvador dali, Pablo Picasso and other 20th century masters, and has become the heroine of the artistic elite circle. Tan Ning is a feminist. She never lets her husband Ernst call her "wife" and has no children for life.

Basic introduction Chinese name: Dorotheanning MBTH: Dorotheanning Nationality: American birthplace: Fort gayles, Illinois Date of birth: 19 10.8.25 Date of death: 2012.10/occupation: Representative works: Birthday, Room 202, Paavo Hotel, Catalogue, Abyss: A Weekend, Character Overview, Art Resume, Art First Step, Good Marriage in Chess, Woman in Art Circle, Works Creation, Works of Art, Literary Works, etc. She is an important participant and witness of surrealism and Dadaism. She is a friend of marcel duchamp, salvador dali, Pablo Picasso and other 20th century masters, and has become the heroine of the artistic elite circle. Tan Ning is a feminist. She never lets her husband Ernst call her "wife" and has no children for life. Her life is full. In her 10 1 year life, she never stopped her artistic creation. When she left, she left a considerable number of works, including paintings, sculptures, poems and novels, as well as works on paper created in various periods. Max Ernst Dorothea Tanning and her husband 18 years old already have a mature and confident face; When I am old, I am full of youthful aura and children's curiosity. Few people live as long as her, living 10 1 year; Few people are as prolific as her. She has been writing all her life and left a lot of works. Few people are as versatile as her, and her creative fields involve oil painting, sculpture, printmaking, poetry, novels and stage design. She is an unusual artist who has witnessed the changes in the western art world over the past century ... Dorothea Tanning once said: "I still think that art is a life raft, and we try our best to climb it to save our hearts." Dorothea Tanning (1910) was born in Fort gayles, Illinois, USA on August 25th, and went to Chicago to study painting at the age of 20. Five years later, with $25 in her pocket, she went to new york to find her dream. /kloc-from 0/936 to 65438+February, the exhibition "Wonderful Art, Dada and Surrealism" held by new york Museum of Modern Art caused a sensation all over the world. Tan Ning was also moved by these cutting-edge works, and she realized that surrealism coincided with the painting style she was exploring, which made her very excited. In addition to painting, tanning also drew advertising pictures for many shops for food. The artistic director of Macy's appreciated her fashion advertisement for the company, so she was introduced to JulienLevy, a famous art dealer in new york. Levi was full of praise for her works and held two solo exhibitions for her in 1944 and 1948 respectively. Through Li Wei, she got to know the European surrealist painters who came to the United States to escape the Nazis. Self-portrait Birthday 1942 One day, MaxErnst, a Dadaist and the founder of surrealism, came to DorotheaTanning's studio and saw her self-portrait Birthday (in the painting, she stood half-naked in front of several doors with a strange creature lying at her feet: a fox with wings. At the end of a game of chess, they fell in love. 1946, max ernst and Tanning, the "Little Three" in the art circle, married photographer man ray and his girlfriend Juliet Bronner in new york. Tanning officially became the hostess of this artistic elite circle. She became friends with Andre Brittany, marcel duchamp, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, salvador dali, pablo Picasso, joseph cornell, Dylan Marles Thomas, truman capote and george balanchine, and she also designed many costumes for the master dancer balanchine. Dorothea Tanning has experienced an unusual life, and her life is full. In her 10 1 year life, she never stopped her artistic creation. When she left, she left a considerable number of works, including paintings, sculptures, poems and novels, as well as works on paper created in various periods. Throughout the forties and fifties, Tan Ning's paintings were rich, and realistic people and things were mixed in a fantastic background, which was one of the representatives of the surrealist movement. Besides Birthday, her masterpiece of this period is Serenade, which is now in tate modern, London. 1949, Tanning and Ernst moved to France after the war. They prefer the peaceful and livable Provence to the artistic Paris. In the mid-1950s, Daning's painting style began to change. The whole shape was broken, and more and more fragments and edges appeared, just like "broken glass" in her own words. During this period, her masterpiece Insomnia was completed on 1957, and now it is collected in Stockholm Modern Museum. By 1960s, Tan Ning's painting style had completely turned to abstraction, but female consciousness was still her persistent theme. From 1969, she set foot in the field of soft sculpture, and then spent four years to complete the fabric sculpture named "Room 202 of Paavo Hotel", which is now collected in the National Museum of Modern Art in Pompidou Center. The surreal creation of emotional communication is full of artistic images that are difficult to explain and cannot be explained. Surrealists firmly believe in the effectiveness of the subconscious and nothingness, so they find many indescribable illusory things. These things shock people's vision, but they are hard to touch people's hearts. Different from other surrealists, Dorothea Tanning's works incorporate her emotions and convey them to every audience. There is a surreal narrative in her works, just like in her early masterpiece Birthday, endless doors and time open a game, and everything goes on in parallel in light and agile time. The tanning in the painting is no longer confined to indoors, and she has the possibility of flying into all spaces. Breaking the Form In the mid-1950s, Daning's painting style began to change. The complete shape has been broken, and an increasingly fragmented and complex multi-faceted structure has emerged. In her own words, it is like "broken glass". In her masterpiece Insomnias of this period, tanning shows the hidden, exposed and distorted space at the same time, which makes the viewer's eyes experience a space experience that has never been seen before. In her later career, Tan Ning continued to explore the possibility of space, and her painting style gradually changed from concrete to abstract. Strange Design The ballet costume designed by Dorothea Tanning has a strange style, which is still full of experiments even after 60 years. At the age of 25, she went to new york alone with her artistic dream, with only $25 on her. When she first arrived in new york, she made a living by designing costumes and stage sets for ballet and drama. During this period, she painted a large number of design drafts, and it is not difficult to see that Tan Ning's works have early signs of surrealism. When Tanning 100 years old, new york Painting Center held an exhibition entitled "Dorothea Tanning-Early Stage Design" for her stage design manuscript. New york's Time magazine commented: "After reading Tan Ning's manuscript, I think it's a pity that she didn't engage in fashion design." The commentary also said that the tight witch costume could almost climb the catwalk in alexander wang, and the huge boat-shaped headdress with surprisingly hard petticoats was reminiscent of the works of philip treacy and john galliano. Literature 1976, Ernst died in Paris at the age of 84. A few years later, Tantan moved back to new york alone. During this period, he became friends with the American poet James Merrill. She once wrote in her memoirs: "At that time in my life, I was desperate for losing the one I loved. He made me realize that life is still beautiful. So I picked up the brush again and began to write. I've been writing alone for 20 years, and I still don't stop. Thanks to Jimmy, this also proves that he is right. " As a comrade, Meryl had close friendship with many American female artists at that time, including poet elizabeth bishop and film producer Maya Deren. With the encouragement of friends, tanning ushered in a productive period of his creative career. Brand-new oil paintings and collages are constantly being born, and he has held many solo exhibitions in Europe and America. 1986, she began to write her first book-memoir Birthday. In 2004, he published a collection of poems "Catalogue" and a short story "Disagreement: Weekend". In his later years, tanning always insisted on writing. Compared with art, literature has become her new world. In recent years, Tan Ning's new poems often appear in New Harmony, Yale Book Review, Paris Book Review, The New Yorker and other publications. Last year, she also published her second collection of poems. Perhaps influenced by her husband Ernst, who is also a poet, Dorothea Tanning has devoted herself to literary creation since the late 1980s. Maybe she wants to commemorate her lover in this way. She once wrote that "if you have love, you will accumulate happiness and luck with the years/days/until you shake hands and be grateful", expressing your infinite meditation on my late husband. 1986, she published her memoir Birthday, which was translated into four languages. In 2004, her collection of poems "Catalogue" came out. Tan Ning's works have always been favored by professional literary journals, including the famous Yale Book Review, The New Yorker and The Paris Book Review. In order to commemorate her contribution to poetry creation, the American Poetry Association specially set up the "Dorothea Tanning Poetry Award" to encourage young poets to come out one after another. 20 12 On March 27th, the prestigious "Poetry in Motion" project of new york MRT was restarted after a four-year suspension. This project allows passengers to enjoy the masterpieces displayed in the carriages when taking the MRT. After the project was resumed, Dorothea Tanning was the first to enter the new york subway station when he graduated. This prestigious public cultural project is deeply loved by the American public, and the works of poetry masters ezra pound and Emily Dickinson are included in it. Feminist As a feminist, Tan Ning never let her husband Ernst call her "wife" and never gave birth. "I am very opposed to reproduction, at least for human reproduction, it must be this attitude. If I can design that both men and women can get pregnant, it depends on who flips a coin. In that case, everyone is equal, and there is no such disgusting title as "female artist". " Tan Ning, 9 1 year-old, replied humorously in an interview with the media in 2002: "I can only say sorry for the fact that I am still here." Dorothea Tanning died in 654381October 36 at the age of 101year. Her death marked the end of the surging surrealist movement. People will not forget the vigorous surrealist movement because of the departure of Tannin. Just two days before her death, a large-scale exhibition entitled "Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Mexican and American Female Artists" opened in the Los Angeles Art Museum, and the works of female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Maya Deren and Louise Bourgeois first appeared in front of the audience.