The Palace of the Windowed Rocks

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The Palace of the Windowed Rocks
ArtistYves Tanguy
Year1942
MediumOil on canvas
MovementSurrealism
Dimensions163 cm × 132 cm (64 in × 52 in)
LocationMusée National d'Art Moderne, 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[edit]

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)."[2]

Influence[edit]

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[edit]

  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. ^ a b Ranier Sepp, Hans (2011). "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. ISBN 978-973-1997-71-1. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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. ISBN 9780297863533.
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