Word: miniaturists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...
...Pilgrims, painted by Polish miniaturist Arthur Szyk for a forthcoming edition of the Canterbury Tales (Heritage Press; $5), seemed a little tired and dusty in illustration, and strangely short in the legs (see cut). But Szyk's faintly medieval touch had caught some of the richness, if not much of the reality, of Chaucer's characters...
Shown with other surrealists--perhaps Ernst, Tanguy, or Tchelitchew--the faults would be far less obvious, and the imaginative and fastidious qualities of Dali's art would emerge. Here, his miniaturist style seems fussy, his conceptions both bizarre and trivial, his composition crowded, and his symbols--crutches, telephones, and flabby amorphous heads--typed and repetitious...