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...spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...
Surrealist Dali, 29, is called a Parisian because that city has been his home for six years. Actually he is a Spaniard, an admirer, friend and onetime disciple of his fellow Catalan expatriate Pablo Picasso. It is hard enough for any surrealist to explain what he means, but dapper, quick little Salvador Dali was additionally handicapped last week by the fact that he speaks no English at all. Still he made a valiant effort. Reporters were ushered into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table...
Surrealist Dali rushed forward effusively and promptly began pulling etchings and small paintings from his portfolio. Through his sponsor, Mrs. Caresse Crosby, he explained his methods...
...chair in the forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...
Surréalisme is a complicated Freudian school of art which numbers among its aims an attempt to express the subconscious by portraying distortions of familiar objects. Its leaders are Joan Miro and Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...