The Magician (Max Ernst)
E151307
The Magician is a surrealist painting by Max Ernst that exemplifies his dreamlike, enigmatic imagery and innovative collage-inspired techniques.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Magician (Max Ernst) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1330847 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: The Magician (Max Ernst) Context triple: [Menil Collection, notableWorkHeld, The Magician (Max Ernst)]
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A.
The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator is a 1929 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a distorted, dreamlike self-portrait exploring themes of sexuality, anxiety, and desire.
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B.
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a famous 1931 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí, renowned for its dreamlike landscape featuring melting clocks that symbolize the fluidity of time.
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C.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is a famous etching and aquatint by Francisco Goya that allegorically depicts the dark, irrational forces unleashed when reason is abandoned.
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D.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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E.
The Painter and His Model
The Painter and His Model is a painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his late-career exploration of the artist–muse relationship and is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Magician (Max Ernst) Target entity description: The Magician is a surrealist painting by Max Ernst that exemplifies his dreamlike, enigmatic imagery and innovative collage-inspired techniques.
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A.
The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator is a 1929 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a distorted, dreamlike self-portrait exploring themes of sexuality, anxiety, and desire.
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B.
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a famous 1931 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí, renowned for its dreamlike landscape featuring melting clocks that symbolize the fluidity of time.
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C.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is a famous etching and aquatint by Francisco Goya that allegorically depicts the dark, irrational forces unleashed when reason is abandoned.
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D.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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E.
The Painter and His Model
The Painter and His Model is a painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his late-career exploration of the artist–muse relationship and is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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work of art ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
dreamlike imagery
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enigmatic imagery ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
20th-century art
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European avant-garde art ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Max Ernst ⓘ |
| creatorBirthPlace | Brühl, Germany ⓘ |
| creatorMovement |
Dada
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Surrealism ⓘ |
| depicts | magician ⓘ |
| genre | surrealist painting ⓘ |
| hasArtForm | painting ⓘ |
| hasArtisticInnovation | integration of collage aesthetics into painting ⓘ |
| hasArtisticMovementContext | interwar Surrealism ⓘ |
| hasColorPalette | surrealist palette ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | German ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | surrealist imagery ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| hasMedium | paint ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dreams
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mystery ⓘ the unconscious ⓘ |
| influencedBy | collage ⓘ |
| mainSubject | surreal figure ⓘ |
| movement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| partOf | Max Ernst oeuvre ⓘ |
| relatedWorkCreator |
The Elephant Celebes
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Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale ⓘ |
| techniqueUsed | collage-inspired techniques ⓘ |
| usesVisualMotif |
fantastical figure
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symbolic objects ⓘ |
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Subject: The Magician (Max Ernst) Description of subject: The Magician is a surrealist painting by Max Ernst that exemplifies his dreamlike, enigmatic imagery and innovative collage-inspired techniques.
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