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...most boring + place on earth." Art became his means of escape from stifling surroundings, as it was, he suggests, for such other Belgian-born painters as James Ensor and Rene Magritte. Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal. But Folon's pictures, compact and whimsical, have always owed more to the purposefully childlike simplicity of Paul Klee than to hallucinatory or surrealistic styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Where Fantasy Teases Reality | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...years since World War II millions of Americans have moved into thousands of new communities that have sprung full-furbished from an architect's brain. And the big housing developments -alternatively praised as the first fruits of social engineering, and damned as the most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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