''The Palace of the Windowed Rocks'' (french: Le Palais aux rochers de fenetres) is a 1942 painting by French
surrealist painter
Yves Tanguy
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (, ), was a French surrealist painter.
Biography
Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Affa ...
.
Description
The title of the painting comes from the influence of the
Atlas Mountains
The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the name "Atlantic" is derived from the mountain range. It stretches around through Moroc ...
in Tanguy's work, which he referred to as "castles".
The canvas has been described as depicting a desolate lunar landscape that shows, "a world that only looks as if it were real but appears as a coherence of facts put together with unshakable necessity...and it realizes a kind of world experiencing with correlative objects that seem to be real (comparable to a ''
trompe-l'œil'') although they can never be found in the real world (contrary to a ''trompe-l'œil'')."
Influence
Writer and gallery curator Mike Evans has called ''The Palace of the Windowed Rocks'' Tanguy's most famous painting.
The painting was used by
Penguin Books for the 1965 paperback cover of
J. G. Ballard's
post-apocalyptic novel ''
The Drowned World
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''.
References
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Surrealist paintings
1942 paintings
Paintings by Yves Tanguy