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Surrealists, Class-Strugglers. Kootz whales away at surrealism in general as "an aspect of frustration" and evidence of "the decay of France." He admires the earlier work of Giorgio di Chirico. But of Salvador Dali he says: ". . . Each new showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Knows What He Dislikes | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Freudian nightmare by Surrealist Ernst. Painted specially for the exhibition, Surrealism & Painting depicted a nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which, Les Femmes au Bord de la Mer, dwarfed, by its sheer creative power, every other painting in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inheritors of Chaos | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home (see cut, p. 41), and John Atherton's Chirico-like Americana, in which pale patriotic statuary is poised against bleak winter scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Shows | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...section is made up principally of paintings, examples of sculpture being confined to very small pieces. The most colorful pictures seem to be those done in the 19th century by such artists as David, Delacroix, and Manet. Only one contemporary work is shown, a picture of two horses by Chirico which almost seems to be a reversion to the primitive style of the East. Represented also are paintings and drawings by Albrecht Durer, Sassetta, Leonardi da Vinci, Rubens, and Goya. From the 19th and 20th centuries come Daumer, Stubbs, and Degas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

Perambulator. Paul Klee has not been without honor in Europe or the U. S, At the world-famed Bauhaus directed by Architect Walter Gropius at Weimar, later Dessau, Germany, Klee was for nine years one of three artist-instructors in painting.*Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ideas & Illuminations | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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