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Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...
...Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama...
...keep the record straight for Reader Chittenden: Cubists, such as Georges Braque, make geometrical designs based on the physical world; Surrealists, such as Salvador Dali, try to paint the peculiar vividness of dreams. In distinguishing loose screws from effective artists in both camps TIME will continue to use its own judgment, to respect that of honest authori-ties...
...recognition that painting of a certain discreet integrity is still permitted in the Reich, the third-prize award had its informative virtues. Devotees of surrealism would have preferred two unquestionably brilliant, fantastic paintings by Spanish Salvador Dali: Métamorphose de Narcisse and Soft Construction With Boiled Beans, 1936, whose agonized self-torn figure, partly carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper...
...prepare their galleries along broad 57th Street and teeming Madison Avenue for the return from Salzburg, Paris, Vienna, London of the patrons by whose trade they live. Old and young art dealers were perking up despite the torpor of the stock market. Julien Levy, the introducer of Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), pioneer in many a modern artist of fashion, announced the removal of his gallery into more spacious quarters on 57th Street. Meanwhile private and public galleries carried on with the last few weeks of their summer shows, adding here and there a room...