Of This Men Shall Know Nothing
{{Short description|Painting by Max Ernst}}
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| title=Of This Men Shall Know Nothing
| other_language_1=German
| other_title_1=Von diesem wissen Männer nichts
| artist=Max Ernst
| year=1923
| height_metric=81
| width_metric=64
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| museum=Tate Liverpool
| city=Liverpool
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Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (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 First French period. The painting measures 81 by 64 centimeters and is now housed at Tate Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool/display/constellations/max-ernst|title=Max Ernst: Men Shall Know Nothing of This, 1923 – Display at Tate Liverpool|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-09}}
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, {{ISBN|0-7546-6736-7}} 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, {{ISBN|0-2927-9136-4}}
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Category:Paintings by Max Ernst