Year 1923 Location Tate Gallery, London Created 1923 Period Surrealism | Medium Oil on canvas Artist Max Ernst Media Oil paint | |
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Dimensions 81 cm × 64 cm (32 in × 25 in) Similar Max Ernst artwork, Surrealist artwork, Oil paintings | ||
Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (German: Von diesem wissen Männer nichts) is oil on canvas painting by a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet Max Ernst. The painting was completed in 1923 in Paris, France. It is created on Surrealism style by use of symbolic painting genre during First French period. The painting measure 81 by 64 centimeters and is now housed at Tate Gallery, London.
Description
The painting shares several features with Silberer’s diagram: its landscape setting and low horizon; the gradation of the sky from light at the bottom to dark at the top; and the inclusion of the sun and the moon. Ernst replaced the cube of Primal Matter with a pile of entrails. Elsewhere Ernst also employed alchemical motifs, such as in this painting of the sexual conjunction of Sun and Moon.