By Jonathan Shih
Yves Tanguy was a self-taught surrealist.
With a little de Chirico, some Dalí, a pinch of Miró, and his own wonderful imagination, Tanguy developed a fascinating body of lonely and abstract landscapes in a dream world.
Yves Tanguy was born in Paris and lived without conscious contact with art - but around age 22, the young man happened to see a painting by Giorgio de Chirico - and his world was turned upside down.
Overnight he decided to become a painter, despite his limited skills.
Breton welcomed him into the surrealist circle - and there was no doubt that his painting style - suited this eccentric gang.
And Tanguy entered a kind of trance when he painted - and he would be completely engrossed in the work he was working on.
His paintings are very personal and easily recognizable - Surreal landscapes with his own abstract style.
They are desert places, wastelands inhabited by all manner of organic forms under misty skies.
In the pre-World War II era, Tanguy was the textbook bohemian artist.
He was lucky enough to find what would become his soulmate (and second wife) Kay Sage, who took him with her to the United States when the war broke out.
Tanguy would live there for the rest of his life.
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