Word: ernst
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Other members of the Faculty who have contributed to Udall's campaign include David Turnbull, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, who gave $45, and Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor, who yesterday would not say how much he gave...
...these men who formed the nucleus of the short-lived Dada movement, the existing surface of art - its forms and language - was a repressive crust. Freedom lay in the unprecedented. For Ernst it included the discovery in 1919 of an old catalogue, full of engravings of all sorts of objects. That catalogue, cut up by its discoverer to make new configurations of its images, was a mother lode of modern art, and the collages Ernst extracted from it, like The Horse, He's Sick (1920), have never been equaled in their ironic intensity, formal rigor and erotic strangeness...
...Ernst had a distinct prophetic faculty: immersed in the 20th century and lacking any nostalgia, he could feel what was coming. The ruins of The Petrified City (1933) are both an aftertaste of the first World War and a foretaste of the second, and The Angel of Earth (1937), a monster prancing in devouring rage across a flat landscape, had more than a fortuitous connection with the advance of fascism. In Europe After the Rain (1940-42), Ernst produced a vision of spongy, iridescent ruins that deserves a place with Picasso's Guernica as one of the supreme documents...
...third wife, in 1941), he made some small paintings by swinging a punctured can of paint on a string above a canvas laid flat on the floor; the resulting pattern of drips clearly anticipates Jackson Pollock. There was no chance technique - staining, rubbing, splashing, accidental manipulation, transfer blots - that Ernst did not pioneer; and if the work of his last 30 years (except for the sculpture, which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive as his early collages or his dreamlike images of the '20s and '30s, it still bore testimony to one of the most durable...
Died. Max Ernst, 84, surrealist painter and sculptor whose prophetic vision of art made him a seminal figure in the irreverent Dada movement and later in surrealism; after a long illness; in Paris...