Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...Salvador Abascal. 4. Jose Orozco...
Most fantastic of the week's stories concerned Costa Rica, the brave little Central American democracy whose teachers outnumber its soldiers. A shadowy Costa Rican politician known only as El Viejo (the Old One) was said to have assembled 1,000 men among the volcanoes of El Salvador, and equipped his force with rifles, machine guns, light field pieces, two light bombers...
Surrealist pictures sometimes leave gallery-goers with the uneasy suspicion that the joke is on them. Last week a surrealist one-man show in Manhattan gave onlookers the pleasure of being in on the laughs. The paintings, by a dour little Belgian named René Magritte, have Salvador Dali's technical perfection but none of Dali's tiresome bag of Freudian tricks. Sample Magritte subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening...
Foolish Virgins, like Double Wedding in Beverly Hills, did demonstrate the kind of craftsmanship and the horrified absorption in sex which have always been Ernst's claims to notoriety. Only Salvador Dali (whom orthodox surrealists consider too slick and too successful) can rival Ernst at his most unpleasant...