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...days before anybody noticed in the background of The Beheading a strangely familiar bald head, crowned by a dove. Sure enough, it was Pablo Picasso. With closer attention, experts also spotted Salvador Dali in the patent-leather hat of a civil guardsman...
...crest of the controversy, Surrealist Dali bounced into Madrid with a prepared lecture on "Picasso and I." Crowds greeted him with shouts of "Viva Picasso!" Spoke Dali: "There is no difference between Picasso and myself as men. We are both painters, both Spaniards, both geniuses...
Spain has bred more than its share of eminent modern artists, among them Picasso, Joán Miró, Juan Gris and Salvador Dali. But most of them have hotfooted it across the border to France almost as soon as they were old enough to carry their own easels. The artists who stayed behind seemingly found it difficult to forget Spain's great artistic past, and followed, without distinction, the traditions of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya...
...title role, the impeccable playing of Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic, and a charming first act in which Moira (The Red Shoes] Shearer dances as Olympia, the lifelike doll, the bulk of the picture is slow, obscure and pretentious. The script and direction, which borrow from Dali, Cocteau and Cecil B. DeMille, compound the vague symbolism of the Offenbach opera, leave the story line frayed and dangling. Whenever they are audible in the upper operatic range, the English lyrics sound banal. And the much-touted spectacle of Tales of Hoffmann's settings and costumes seems overripe...
Algae & Doves. Critic Wilson, trying a humorous parody of surrealist rhetoric, can be as painful as anything in print: ". . . Mr. Dali allows the milliped...