Word: bruegels
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Fantastic Art has always existed, always will as long as men have illogical minds and unruly imaginations. The Museum's walls historically carried fantastic art from the horror pictures of medieval Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, through the engravings of Hogarth, to the comic cartoons of Rube Goldberg and the frustrated drawings of James Thurber. Prominently displayed as examples of fantastic art were copies of Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhymes, Lewis Carroll's Jabber-wacky. This week's exhibition did not disdain the art of the frankly insane. There was a panel of wild designs...
...shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins, a stiff collar, pearl necklace, a child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were in addition, books, prints and paintings ranging from the 18th to the 20th Century, from Pieter Bruegel to contemporary Peter Blume. Having done its best to explain abstract art to the U. S. public last spring (TIME, March 9), the Museum of Modern Art was now attempting to explain another exotic movement with an equally important show broadly titled Exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism...