Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ernst will be 82 this year. He is rightly held to be one of the fathers of modern art, having outlasted most of his progeny. Dada and Surrealism, the movements that he helped fertilize, are now ticketed and labeled. Their revolutionary ambitions have been reduced to connoisseurship and slipped into the museum. Most of Ernst's allies in the Surrealist adventure are dead...
...Ernst continues, and he eludes the categories. Five years before Pollock, he dripped paint on a canvas from a swinging can. Long after Surrealism died as a movement, he preserved the fresh poetry of the Surrealist dialogue between images. He is the master of invoked accident and controlled chance, and he still paints as if the world could be directed-if not quite controlled-by a nudge of complicity...
Last month Rice University's Institute for the Arts in Houston opened a remarkable tribute to the inexhaustible Max: the 104 Ernsts acquired in the past 30 years by Houston's leading collectors, John and Dominique de Menil. In its range-from early Dada collages to the remarkable but underrated bronzes of the artist as sculptor-this is one of the most remarkable private collections of Ernst in the world...
...Ernst was born in a small town outside Cologne. His father was a schoolteacher. From earliest childhood Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images. Some came during sickness. He remembers being ill and staring for hours at some mahogany plywood paneling, discerning there the shape of a dove, a nightingale, a girl-chimera-all familiar in his work...
Could it be that some clever yahoo in top circles has thought to repay the Swedes for their temerity in protesting the escalated brutality of our recent bombings in S.E. Asia by reducing their most prestigious institution to absurdity? Ernst Bacon Professor Emeritus Syracuse University