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...cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose art was, in the words of Andre Breton, a "ribbon around a bomb...
...addition to the experimental pieces, the show includes portaits of Bravo's interesting acquaintances: Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Breton. Revelaciones provides a valuable opportunity to see some of Bravo's finest work. His inspired vision offers American audiences a landscape that is new and exceedingly real...
...imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came up with the funniest antireligious joke in modern art -- the famous (and, alas, rarely seen) parody of a Renaissance Madonna, in which Mary is whaling Jesus on his bare bottom before a trio of witnesses, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and Ernst himself...
...while equaling both in its rigor and sensuousness, and Yellow Christ, 1889, with its startling extremes of yellow and orange. This painting of peasants adoring a wayside crucifix was also, perhaps, an allegory of Gauguin's opinion of himself: Christ's face is his schematic self-portrait, and the Breton women may stand for Gauguin's followers in Pont-Aven...
...delicious strain of fantasy: a cat with a man's head serenading on the sill, a Janus head (Chagall himself, looking forward to modernism and back to the village?) displaying a heart on his hand. He was unquestionably a prince of tropes. "With Chagall alone," said Andre Breton, leader of the surrealists, "metaphor made its triumphant entry into modern painting." And though the procession that followed its entry had its tedious stretches, involving some fairly shameless plucking on the heartstrings, the best of Chagall remains indispensable to any nondoctrinaire reading of the art of the 20th century...