Louise Bourgeois and Max Ernst


In Max Ernst’s painting “Adam and Eve Expelled from the Garden of Eden,” Ernst painted a detailed landscape onto a tiny card. The painting’s dimensions are ½” x 1 3/8”. Although the title of the piece mentions Adam and Eve, there are no figures of Adam or Eve within it. Ernst uses scale to be ironic. The painting is so small that you would have to walk very close in order to see it, and once you are close enough to make it out, you come to realize the image is actually of a desolate garden. This painting is an example of Surrealism because Ernst paints the vast Garden of Eden on a very small card, creating a paradox. The textures and colors of the painting also make it Surrealism because Ernst painted mainly with the colors yellow, red, and black. Even though the painting is of a garden, because of the colors, it looks rather desolate.
 

In Louise Bourgeois’ “Femme Maison,” Bourgeois draws her vision of a house wife as a literal house with human legs, arms and hair. She is expressing that society has this idea in which all women have to be stay-at-home mothers and wives. The house body is seen more as an empty confinement space rather than a home. The hair shaped into a spiral creates a feeling of tension and can be seen all throughout her work. This drawing is an example of Surrealism because the house has arms, legs and hair like if it were human.

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