The Palace of the Windowed Rocks explained
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 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)."
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]
Notes and References
- Book: 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 . 1563 . 9780810830202 .
- Ranier Sepp . Hans . Possible Necessities. A Phenomenological Analysis of Yves Tanguy's The Palace of the Windowed Rocks . Phenomenology 2010 . 2011 . 4 . 2011 . 493–502 . 10.7761/9789731997728.20 . 978-973-1997-71-1 . 12 June 2018 .
- Book: von Maur, Karin . 2001 . Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Englische Ausgabe . Stuttgart . Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Company KG . 101, 223 . 978-1-68325-473-7 .
- Book: Brodskaya, Natalia . 2018 . Surrealism . Paris . 344 . 978-1-68325-473-7 .
- Book: 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 . 344 . 9781844036400 .
- Book: 2007 . Matthews . Nicole . Moody . Nickianne . Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing . Burington, VT . Ashgate Publishing Limited . 100 . 978-0-7546-5731-6 .
- Book: 2009 . Bould . Mark . Butler . Andrew M. . Roberts . Adam . Vint . Sherryl . Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction . New York, NY . Routledge . 13 . 978-0-415-43949-7 .
- Book: Baxter, John . 2001 . The Inner Man: The Life of J.G. Ballard . London . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 9780297863533 .
