the idiosyncratic ethos of Surrealism, Ernst and Tanguy each embody a unique aesthetic language. While Er

o painting to produce illogical visual alchemies, Tanguy populated hazy, unearthly vistas with painterly a

uried memories and experiences. On the contrary, Tanguy’s paintings are smooth, tonally gradated composit

urrealist mechanism which animated both Ernst and Tanguy’s practices, and continues to inform Fischer’s st

War. At times cryptic, eerie, and even humorous, Tanguy’s compositions are utterly defiant to definition