休斯顿，得克萨斯州讯 在1934年夏天德国出生的达达主义和超现实主义的创始人马克斯·厄恩斯特（Max Ernst）在Zürich’s Corso剧院完成了一幅Mascotte舞蹈壁画，这也是画家在70多年艺术生涯中最大的一幅绘画作品。《Ancolie仙女的花瓣和花园》（Petals and Garden of Nymph Ancolie）装饰了这家夜总会的一面墙壁。基于维多利亚女王时代植物大百科全书的图解，超现实主义家的绘画特点是在一片金色葱绿花瓣背景中的一个轻盈的舞蹈者。这幅作品完成后，一位作家观察到：“马克斯创造以线条、曲线纠缠装饰的平面风格的这幅壁画活泼、有趣、充满欢愉…”
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HOUSTON, TX.- During the summer of 1934, German-born artist Max Ernst executed a mural for the Dancing Mascotte, the bar at Zürich’s Corso Theatre. One of the largest painted works of the artist’s seven-decade career, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie (Petals and Garden of Nymph Ancolie) adorned a wall of the popular nightspot. Based on an illustration found in a Victorian-era botanical encyclopedia, the surrealist imagery features a dancing bird-like figure emerging from a lush backdrop of red and gold flower petals. Upon completion of the work, a writer for Neue Zurcher Zeitung observed: “Max Ernst has created a large fre sco in the dancing area of the Corso … Lines, curves, ornaments intertwine in multifarious ways and in an absolutely planar style … It is an amusing, vivacious, cheerful ensemble…”
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