Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Francis Bator, Economics Robert Dorfman. Economics R. Victor Jones. Engineering Ernst Mayr, Biology Martin Shefter, Government
Geological Sciences Gwyn Evans. English Ernst Kitzinger, Anthony Oettinger. S.S. Stevens. Psychophysics
...giant strawberry in the bathroom. Across a pair of double doors appeared a huge butterfly that seemed to fly when the doors were opened. Between the windows in the dining room stood a delicately tattooed nude flanked by her green shadow. The master bedroom was turned over to Ernst's Histoire Naturelle, a subliminally suggestive panorama filled with prickly plants, grasshoppers and a lazy anteater carrying its baby over a brick wall. Some of the most charming reveries were reserved for the bedroom of the Eluards' five-year-old daughter Cecile, who went to sleep each night amid...
After a few years the Surrealists scattered. Gala ran off to marry Salvador Dali. Eluard died in 1952. Ernst went on to enjoy international prominence as a perennial myth maker in sculpture, painting and collage. The house itself was sold in 1929 to a butcher and passed through many hands...
...found the murals covered with layers of wallpaper. It took two years for a restorer, using archaeological techniques, to transfer some of the delicate oils to canvas. The resuit is now being shown at Paris' Galerie Andre-Frangois Petit. Amazingly, the colors are as bright as the day Ernst painted them, and each of the 14 canvases carries something of that breathless, rarefied atmosphere of in sight and abandon in which they were created. More important, perhaps, notes Paintei Andre Masson, they prove that Ernst was a precursor as far as Sur realism was concerned. "While the rest...