Word: dali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Algae & Doves. Critic Wilson, trying a humorous parody of surrealist rhetoric, can be as painful as anything in print: ". . . Mr. Dali allows the milliped...
Such tongue-in-cheek stunts have earned Gugel the reputation of being a surrealist (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). But like Salvador Dali, he now dislikes the tag; it is too tired for publicity purposes. "Surrealism," Gugel says, "started as an art of the subconscious, while I try to be as conscious as possible." Though he dotes on shoes to such an extent that they have become his trademark, Gugel insists that they have no Freudian implications for him. His grandfather, Gugel explains, was in the shoe business: "And I was always fond of grandfather...
...colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...
...Paris, surrealist Artist Salvador Dali complained that the U.S., which he had just visited, was no place for an artist: "The light . . . is no good. The food . . . is barbaric. They just pour on the salt and pour on the tomato catsup...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...