Men Shall Know Nothing of This (German: Von diesem wissen Männer nichts) is oil on canvas painting by a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet Max Ernst. The painting was completed in 1923 in Paris, France. It is created in a Surrealism style by use of symbolic painting genre during the First French period. The painting measures 81 by 64 centimeters and is now housed at Tate Liverpool.
Description The painting shares several features with Silberer's diagram: its landscape setting and low horizon; the gradation of the sky from light at the bottom to dark at the top; and the inclusion of the Sun and the Moon. Ernst replaced the cube of Primal Matter with a pile of entrails.Alchemy in contemporary art by Urszula Szulakowska, Elsewhere Ernst also employed alchemical motifs, such as in this painting of the sexual conjunction of Sun and Moon.Max Ernst and alchemy: a magician in search of a myth, by M. E. Warlick,
References
External links Poem written on the back of the painting by Ernst