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Flying Dutchman

Rendered directly with a palette knife, Man Ray’s Flying Dutchman encroaches on pure abstraction and, in keeping with the Dada spirit of rebellion against tradition, manifests the artist’s rejection of conventional easel painting with a brush. He derived this composition from a photograph he captured of sheets hanging from a clothesline in the backyard of a New York slum. The painting’s title suggests that the image of sheets blowing in the wind reminded him of ship sails and, more specifically, of the celebrated and tragic opera by Richard Wagner (1813–1883), The Flying Dutchman, based on the legend of a ghost ship doomed to sail aimlessly forever, its sails in tatters.

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About this artwork

Title: Flying Dutchman
Artist: Man Ray
Year: 1920
Original dimensions: 48.0 x 65.0 cm
Copyright status: Under copyright
Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movement: Dadaism
Medium type: WallArt
Corpus context: dada , rebellion
Keywords: man ray art print , dramatic art artwork , sailing ships decor

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Title: Flying Dutchman
Influences:
- Wagner
- Ashcan School
Artistic style: Abstract, Symbolic
Movement: Dadaism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Artist: Man Ray
Year: 1920

Flying Dutchman

Man Ray (1890 – 1976)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (new york, United States of America)

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