Word: breton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canoeing to China. Ever since the Breton sea captain, Jacques Cartier, discovered it in 1535, the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes route has been North America's most important waterway. Cartier thought he had found a new route to China; he and later French explorers pressed on upriver expecting to find Oriental gold and spices. They never reached China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains...
...left or have been 'excluded.' (To name a few: Picabia, Magritte, Giacommeti, Brauner, Tanguy, the artists, and Crevel, Desnes, and Eluard, the poets.) For me, surrealism will continue to be represented by poets such as these, rather than by the mediocrities clinging to the masthead of Andre Breton. No wonder he is lonely! I am sorry...
...year later, Gauguin took off for Paris with one child, leaving his wife and the other children behind. "When my sabots echo on the granite," he said, "I hear the sound, dull and strong, that I'm looking for in painting." Thanks to the generous mistress of a Breton pension, Gauguin painted in peace on a full belly. Restlessly driven back to Paris and semi-starvation, the man who had once speculated so brilliantly on the stock exchange was now looking for common stock in El Dorado...
...Martians were, anything but standardized. One who stopped M. Roger Barrault near the town of Lavoux had brilliant eyes, an enormous mustache, wore rubbers and spoke Latin. Another asked M. Pierre Lucas, a Breton baker, for a light. He was bearded and had a single eye in the middle of his forehead. M. Lucas could not remember what language he spoke...
...like a medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without...