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

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

ifested as a catalyst of creativity for Ernst and Tanguy, and surely as an impetus for the contemporary ar

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