Do artists like Max Ernst use cultural themes to create their art, like the German fairy tales?
1) Yes, Walt Disney was doing this too. 😉 2) I don’t really know any artist similar to Max Ernst. But other artists also use certainly cultural themes. And even fairy tales. Here another artist who had a love relationship to Max Ernst: “In 1937, Carrington met Max Ernst in London. He left his wife for Carrington, his “Bride of the Wind”. The couple lived together until the outbreak of W.W.II when Ernst was taken prisoner as an enemy alien. Carrington’s work during this period moves from themes of childhood filled with magical birds and animals, to a mature art based on Celtic mythology and alchemical transformation. It is an art of sensibility rather than hallucination, one in which animal guides lead the way out of a world of men who don’t know magic, fear the night, and have no mental powers except intellect. One can clearly see this in Leonora Carrington’s self-portrait where animals reveal themselves to be forces of nature. “The source of Carringtion’s magical white horse lies no
