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Pietà or Revolution by Night

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The painting is interpreted as symbolic of the turbulent relationship between the artist and his father, as an amateur painter and staunch
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In the background drawn on a wall is a man with a bandaged head ascending a flight of stairs. A profile on the work in the
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movement. Its title reflects the revolutionary sentiments of the movement, and in particular of its founder,
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Pietà or Revolution by Night (Pietà ou La révolution la nuit)
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Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person
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This article about a twentieth-century painting is a
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Max Ernst
Oil on canvas
Tate Gallery
London
German
surrealist
Dadaist
Max Ernst
Tate Gallery
London
Catholic
Virgin Mary
Jesus
sleepwalking
British
The Guardian
Sigmund Freud
Guillaume Apollinaire
World War I
surrealist
André Breton
The Guardian
The Tate Gallery


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