Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...
Despite inexperience, shortages, Latin politicking and bacchanalian waste, a major share of the road was laid down, some of it paved. Keeping a weather eye out for tropical rainstorms and stalled oxcarts, Central Americans now drive over most of Guatemala, El Salvador. Honduras and Nicaragua. But U.S. motorists won't get to Guatemala until the Mexicans finish the 420 miles from Oaxaca south to the border. In Costa Rica and in part of Panama, mountain and jungle still stand before giant bulldozers and power shovels. Last fortnight those giants got fresh energy when a new U.S. appropriation...
...surrealists, who were more noisy than numerous, beauty was just the stuff that dreams are made of. Salvador Dali still led the somnambulating flock, with pictures brilliant, boneless and as bland as the fried eggs he claims to have seen while he was still in his mother's womb...
Tomorrow's pushbutton war got its first full-dress showing last week at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. On a dusty desert flat, surrounded by Salvador Dali mountains, hundreds of newsmen, photographers, scientists, U.S. and British generals, crouched behind hummocks at a safe distance. They watched a scene to horrify any man with imagination...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...