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...this vast selection gleaned from millions of sketches, paintings and layouts. Abrams' book continues the elevation of Disney from the Barnum of the barnyard to an aesthetician with uncanny instincts. This is no Mickey Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador Dali, which were commissioned by Walt as "inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive had it, "If it works in a Rubens it must work in Donald Duck." Proof is offered in the book's juxtaposition of Renaissance sketches with drawings from...
...Greco, Rembrandt and dozens of lesser-known artists and craftsmen re-create the greatest story ever told and seen. Piety, passion and drama are conveyed in traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings. Salvador Dali's Sacrament of the Last Supper is dominated by a clean-shaven, translucent Jesus addressing his bowed Apostles under what appears to be a geodesic dome. Each illustration is accompanied by a descriptive text block. The Gospel narratives are condensed in clear, simple, documentary prose...
Another title, the Marques de Pubol, has the perfect ring for the surreal image of its outre honoree, Salvador Dali...
...artist has been tapped to be a member of the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos, 44. The honorific (after the Iberian castle Dali bought for his late wife Gala) is not so terrific: no House of Lords, no special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real...
...company of the great convalescents: Cavafy, Leopardi, Proust. The city was his sanatorium and, as a fabricator of images that spoke of frustration, tension and ritualized memory, he had no equal. No wonder the surrealists adored his early work and adopted its strategies wholesale. The "illusionist" painters among them, Dali, Ernst, Tanguy and Magritte, all came out of early De Chirico, a lineage astutely discussed by Laura Rosenstock in the catalogue; and as another contributor, Wieland Schmied, points out, German painters in the '20s like George Grosz used Chirican motifs to express their vision of an estranged urban world...