Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another surrealist, Andre Masson suffers from insomnia. There was a time when he spent the long, painful hours of darkness dreaming up new paintings, but not any more. Masson has called a halt to the shadowy flood of gutted women, warring insects, angry furniture, neon seas, chalk idols and galloping labyrinths that made him famous, and moved out into the sunshine to paint landscapes...
...shuttered house overlooking Aix in French Provence, Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...
...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...
Mike Siner led in conspicuousness of poster area by suspending his name in foot square letters from the ceiling of the Union lobby and writing his name with green paint on the snow outside. "Colonel" Bill Warner issued a directive ordering "all personnel to abstain from study and classes on the weekend in question," promising "severe reprimands to the College Administration if they interfered...
Jackson Pollock's painting Number Eleven, pictured in the Art section of TIME [Feb. 7], interpreted by Sam Hunter of the New York Times as "cathartic disintegration," is nothing of the sort. Any biologist will tell him that Mr. Pollock made a subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been...