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"inscription": "signed in graphite; inscribed with the title, Les \u00c9trangers, possibly by Kay Sage (Tanguy's Widow)",
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"id": 188479,
"title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints",
"description": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).",
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"title": "Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17",
"description": "Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-August 13, 2017).",
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"description": "Influenced by the writings of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists wanted to expand awareness beyond conscious, rational thought to the subconscious realm of ideas, perceptions, and creative impulses. To gain access to the subconscious, they used dream imagery and free-association techniques, including automatic drawing (letting the hand draw without conscious direction). Artists like Tanguy and Kurt Seligmann, who fled Nazi-occupied Europe, brought Surrealism to New York, Tanguy's work reveals the domain of the imagination through visionary, dreamlike imagery. Mysterious forms, often related to bones or sexual organs, float in a ambiguously vast and otherworldly expanse. These fantastic stone and bonelike biomorphic forms (based on shapes found in nature) were inspired by the curious cliff formations he saw during a trip to Africa in 1930-31, and by the prehistoric dolmens and menhirs (monumental stone sculptures) of Brittany, where he spent many vacations.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d March 17, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Published as: The Foreigners or Open Sky.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
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