Max Ernst is known many things in terms of art. But, he is mostly famous for greatly contributing to the surrealist movement. He was born in Germany at April 2nd 1891 and died one day before his 85th birthday.
L'Ange du Foyeur by Max Ernst is one of his famous surrealist paintings, which could be interpreted in many ways. To me it first seemed like an ugly dragon/ lizard like creature stomping the ground. After I took a good look, it resembles a creature dissatisfied with its habits and behavior which is running around with a pained expression, no sense of direction; and tearing itself apart with every step. Yet it wants to retain its old self as seen by the green thing on the left, which can be interpreted as temptation. It could also be interpreted as something to do with the world wars and other worldly matters, but I feel that my opinion expressed above gives the basic and accurate idea of the possible meanings behind the L'Ange du Foyeur.
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