Storm (Black Landscape)

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Philadelphia Museum of Art (the USA).

Love for the sea elements, characteristic of the artist since childhood, is expressed in many of his canvases. The painting depicts the sea during a night storm when the dark depths pose a serious threat and danger to humans. A talented master of metamorphoses and optical effects, Yves Tanguy managed to depict simultaneously the surface of the raging ocean and its bottom, where, despite the storm, silence and calm reign. This underwater world is inhabited by strange, incomprehensible creatures who do not know any human problems and worries, and time has its course. Particular attention is drawn to the mysterious “living stone” at the bottom, which seems to be watching with surprise what is happening with its eye.