Word: shad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical of the man who has never wholly deserted childhood. If he has his nightmares, they are quickly over, for his very next painting will brim with laughter. Even his barbarian hordes seem a trifle whimsical, as if they were spooks that a child might see in the shad ows. Just as the image refuses to be itself, so the emotion refuses to stay still -and that is the effect Ernst is after. "Birds become men," he once explained, "and men become birds. Catastrophes become hilarious. Everything is astonishing, heart breaking and possible...