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Last week it was the old masters who stole the show-Yves Tanguy with his unearthly landscapes, Francis Picabia with a grotesque pair of spiky-chinned lovers, the German Richard Oelze with buildings and people that look as if they had been submerged in water for years. There were wooden moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg...
After the war, Soulages began simplifying his trees to stark black lines. In 1947 he made his momentous step: "I organized the lines into a great sign which suppresses the descriptive tendency of the line." The results won the praise of oldtime Surrealist Picabia, who called Soulages' work the best painting in the 1947 Salon des Surindépendents. When a black-and-white Soulages painting was used as the cover for the catalogue of a show of young painters traveling to West Germany, Soulages was made. Repeating the formula ever since has only increased his fame, placed...
Delaunay quickly swept on to the uncharted frontiers of the abstract, becoming one of the original pioneers with Kandinsky and Picabia. He called this his "constructive" period. Delaunay's interest was concentrated on color. His theorizing (he would talk for hours, even if no one seemed to be listening, "to get my ideas in better order") led him to the notion that "the breaking of forms by light creates colored figurations. These colored figurations are the structure of the picture, and nature is no longer a subject of description." The theory was revolutionary. Said Delaunay: "Thus far, a tree...
...left the surrealist group in 1939 and have never since belonged to it. It seems to me that all those who have made the discoveries and the greatness of surrealism, have over the last 20 years either left or have been 'excluded.' (To name a few: Picabia, Magritte, Giacommeti, Brauner, Tanguy, the artists, and Crevel, Desnes, and Eluard, the poets.) For me, surrealism will continue to be represented by poets such as these, rather than by the mediocrities clinging to the masthead of Andre Breton. No wonder he is lonely! I am sorry...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...