what is the meaning of the elephant celebes
The Elephant Celebes (or Celebes) is a 1921 painting by the German Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. It is among the most famous of Ernst's early surrealist works and undoubtedly the first masterpiece of Surrealist painting in the De Chirico tradition..It combines the vivid dreamlike atmosphere of Surrealism with the collage aspects of Dada.hese may be allusions to the mechanical terror of the war experience which led to Ernst writing, On the 1st of August 1914 Max Ernst died. He was resurrected on the 11 November 1918 as a young man who aspired to find the myths of his time.. Celebes, then, seems to represent the myth of destruction.