Yves Tanguy was inspired to make art by the inner world of dreams and the subconscious mind. Rather than reflecting the external world, this painting combines realism with fantasy and mystery in an expression of a private experience.

Surrealism grew out of the despair caused by the devastations of World War I. A young generation of artists lost faith in humanity and rational thought. The Surrealists felt that the outside world had failed them so they turned to the subconscious mind for inspiration. 

Born in Paris on Jan. 5, 1900, to Breton parents, Yves Tanguy spent his childhood vacations in Finistère, an area of Brittany that contained many prehistoric menhirs and dolmens. His memories of this terrain may have gone into the fashioning of his fantastic landscapes.

Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a scrupulous technique reminiscent of that of Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring half marine and half lunar landscapes in which amorphous nameless objects proliferate in a spectral dream-space. 

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