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However, two fine shorts run the first forty-five minutes at the Brattle, and might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with its free-association stream of symbols. (If you get completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most...
...notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
...never flamboyant, Miró has always been in danger of being dismissed as merely playful. Happily married, reluctant to engage in polemics, disliking grand gestures, he has never been one to charm and bedevil the public as have his fellow Spaniards Dali and Picasso. As one of the earliest and most abstract of all the surrealists, Miró was already a near-legendary figure among his fellow painters by the 1930s. But even in the 1960s, there are still critics who argue that his art is too shallow, too cheerful, too clever and, above all, too personal and too eclectic...
...Spain in 1893, is one of the most well-known of the Surrealist painters of the '20's and '30's, a group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...
...surrealists agreed that the time had come to substitute the logic of the unconscious for the deliberate illogic of Dada, but only half of the movement, including Dali, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, used conventional Renaissance oil techniques and perspective to portray the fantasy world of dreams and hallucination. Helped by Dali's genius for self-publicity, it was this half of the movement that became synonymous with surrealism...