Word: daly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hartford never finds time, in his condemnation of Picasso, to mention the artist's surrealistic paintings. Hartford likes surrealism. He thinks Salvador Dali is the greatest painter of contemporary times. He even forgives the surrealist painter, Tanguy, for not painting recognizable objects, because Tanguy's paintings are so meticulously three-dimensional. But what does Hartford think of Picasso's surrealism? How does he resolve the combination of his pet ogre of the twentieth century with his pet movement of the twentieth century? He shouldn't keep the answer to himself...
...straight-faced student declared, "Salvador Dali! It suddenly came to me that it would be appropriate to have a surrealist as President. Our country--so disjointed, only a surrealist could put America back together again...
ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco could have thought possible." With fantasy and pathos rather than bitterness, Bearden turns out blues to hang on a wall. From cutouts - crooked nose, laughing eyes, tearstained cheek - he collages surreal cityscapes of Negro life, then photographs and enlarges them, for the liveliest views on the avenue. Through...
...strike him. "I feel it's so wasteful not to use the images you find around you," he says. In 1960 he finished 34 delicate frottage drawings to illustrate Dante's Inferno, and by using multiple images achieved an effect that neither Botticelli nor Blake, Dore nor Dali, would have dreamed of: he put each entire canto on a single sheet of paper...
...Spain inexorably involves a set of attitudes to and by the government. The Civil War, cutting off a rich flowering of painting and sculpture, turned Picasso into a rebellious exile in France, Dali into a Franco sympathizer, Miró into a resister who stood his ground on Spanish soil. Until 1958, art and the government fought a wary underground war, and the world wondered whether the Spanish art had ended in 1937 with Picasso's Guernica...