Word: breton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage...
...spent his evenings at the Café Certá talking with Breton, Arp. De Chirico and Léger and making composite drawings that they called "exquisite corpses." This was actually an old parlor game. One artist would draw a head, fold the paper and pass it on to the next man, who would draw the body without seeing what had already been done. "We used to fabricate all sorts of monsters." says...
...Paris bureau's George Abell got an early start in French"from my Breton nurse, who was later murdered by our German coachman two years after he married her." Frank White arrived in the Paris office in 1948 equipped with a combination of college French, Foreign Legion French, and colonial French picked up in Indo-China after the war. "To Parisians," he says, "I sounded like a Saigonese houseboy." M. Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese...
Then Pierre met Eileen Hill, a London typist taking her vacation on the Breton coast of France. Eileen, daughter of a retired policeman, fell hard. Pierre, who was 40, took her nightclubbing in Paris, whirled her from bistro to chalet in his Bugatti racer. She became his mistress...
...Gogh's sitter in this portrait is a kindly Breton named Père Tanguy, who kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color...