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Interrogation (what kind of bird are you?)

This is an original artwork, please don’t touch.

For this artwork, a musical piece was especially composed by composer Sachit Ajmani. Scroll down and press the play button next to the 'Musical Composition' of the Multi Sensory Route in order to listen to the piece and to experience the artwork in a different way.

Information on the artwork

In this predominantly red painting, Max Ernst used black lines to outline the contours of a large and a small figure. The rest of the work is composed of a large number of small angular shapes which appear to partly overlap. They were created by placing paint onto the canvas with a palette knife or scraping it off again. Possibly Ernst also placed piec...

1956-1958
Oil on canvas
147.5 x 115.5cm
115
Image and text © Van Abbemuseum, 2024

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