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...always good and not always bad, the gremlins show traits of character reaching down through the centuries in fairyland* between the profane and mundane world and the world of the supernatural and religious. The fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which...
...instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...
Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...
...gouaches, disembodied pictures of weird, woebegone snakes and spindle-legged birds, were the show's No. 1 hit. Totally unlike anything hitherto dreamed of in U.S. art, they somewhat resembled the wiry expressionist fantasies of famed Swiss Painter Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21,1940). Hopping about an ornithological fairyland, or standing gravely among heaps of what looked like luminous spaghetti, Painter Graves's fossil-like birds were painted with the delicacy of Chinese landscapes...
...prosaic note threatened to put the kibosh on this study in sylvan psychopathology. The Second Army Corps announced plans last week to take over 110,000 acres of Caroline County as a field for maneuvers. The area might include Hampton Manor's Freudian fairyland...