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Word: spilliaert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century was, however, one of mood. Whether the artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Psychic Roots of the Surreal | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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