Word: dali
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Standing Before a Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive, is quite in that league. Now they are all dead, the artists born between 1880 and 1900 who reshaped both culture and consciousness. Although it would be pious to suppose that much of Miró's work in the last 25 years...
...after the opening of his first film, "Un Chien D'andalou," written in conjunction with Salvador Dali, that Bunuel was admitted to the Surrealist group. During the opening, Bunuel hid behind the screens, his pockets full of stones "to throw at the audience in case of disaster...
DIED. Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...
DIED. Florence Gould, 87, longtime patron of the arts who gave moral support and millions to leading French literary figures, and in the post-World War II years surrounded herself with something of a Parisian Bloomsbury group that included André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali; in Cannes. Born in San Francisco of French parents, she married Frank Jay Gould, son of the railroad robber baron, in 1923; together they invested shrewdly in Riviera real estate and built the casino, and the cachet, that made their Juan-les-Pins resort famous...
...spiritual roots in the Belle Epoque, but their bold architecture makes them look right up to the minute-or, in the case of some dresses on display, just ahead of it. In 1937 he designed a quilted evening jacket of white satin that he filled with eider down. Salvador Dali called it the first soft sculpture (Was Claes Oldenburg listening?), and James himself thought his design had inspired the U.S. military when they needed heavy-weather gear. Indeed, James frequently thought that he was being knocked off, especially by the vulgarians on Seventh Avenue. Undoubtedly he was. No one, however...