Word: daly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disassociation & Dream. Fact is, Velásquez is suddenly much in the modern air. Last week Salvador Dali turned up in New York with a new painting called Velásquez painting the Infanta with the lights and shadows of his proper glory. The Infanta is only shadowily visible through the darkly luminous galleries of the Prado. Explains Dali, sighting along the points of his caliper-style mustache: "The new was and is through Velásquez. Abstract expressionism is in the details of Velásquez, in the brush strokes...
Tapies, brightest young (35) man to come out of Spain since those electric uncles of modern art, Picasso, Dali and Miro, allowed that his picture represented "nothing at all." His pigments were mixed with "something like cement-it's almost like relief work." La Pintura does in fact suggest the Costa Brava's austere spaciousness-rocks, sea and fishing boats...
Poet Robert Frost, 84, newly anointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (TIME, Oct. 27), gathered in new kudos: the $5,000 Huntington Hartford Foundation Award for 1958. Among previous winners, for their contributions of "unusual significance to the arts": madcap Painter Salvador Dali (1957), flinty Literary Historian Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks...
...least encouraging features about the movie are the technical details involved. Sprawled across a wide screen the color appears blotched on. The whole spectacle closely resembles Salvador Dali's view of a Japanese print. The blurred effect of seeing one and one-half people on the screen kept patrons continually wiping their glasses...
...garden was "rediscovered" when Salvador Dali journeyed there from Rome to pose in an ogre's mouth (opposite) while conversing with a white cat. Research by Italian and English scholars indicates that, far from being a surrealist chamber of horrors, the garden was originally a rather solemn effort to combine the wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left...