Word: breton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives seem to think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...Poet André Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur . . " (TIME, Dec. 14) is not unique in his obsession for green...
...about this time with what he calls his collages: fantastic pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born...
...surrealists are serious. Some strive diligently to apply the Breton esthetic, while others are merely frivolous daubers and assemblers of miscellaneous junk. Nevertheless, one thing almost all surrealists have in common is an instinct for dramatic titles. Thumbing through the catalog last week gallery goers lifted eye brows at the following items : Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (de Chirico...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...