Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck claimed: ". . . it was I who pronounced the word dada [hobbyhorse] for the first time.") In moments of harmony and logic which they affected to despise, dadaists admitted that their object was "to spit in the eye of the world...
Surrealism. An art movement without hope or object cannot last long. Dadaist Max Ernst in his desire to spit in the eye of the world was experimenting about this time with what he calls his collages: fantastic pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered...
...surrealists are serious. Some strive diligently to apply the Breton esthetic, while others are merely frivolous daubers and assemblers of miscellaneous junk. Nevertheless, one thing almost all surrealists have in common is an instinct for dramatic titles. Thumbing through the catalog last week gallery goers lifted eye brows at the following items : Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (de Chirico...
...pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships...
Strangest aspect of the career of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence was the astonishing lack of success that attended his efforts to keep out of the public eye...