Word: surrealisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If the grandeur of the West is already surrealistic, as in "Sand Dunes at Sunrise, Death Valley" (1954), then surrealism is nature and Adams is only its faithful scribe. We must look to his choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of...
What did amaze the critics was the caliber of the work. "Fabulous!" raved the critic for the prestigious Neue Zurcher. "A collection of many practically unknown masterpieces." Particularly admired were two Van Goghs, a Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self...
Even Surrealism has come to photographic portraiture. Harry Calahan has four portraits of Elanor. They are taken over a seven year period, so presumably he knows her fairly well. The most astounding picture portrays Eleanor as the Cross, and the Cross as Eleanor. The cross is formed by the vertical...
...attack; in Paris. A onetime medical student with a dual penchant for poetry and psychiatry, Breton brought Freudian psychology into art and literature, turning to stream-of-consciousness and free-association techniques in his poems and dreamlike novels (Nadja, Les Vases Communicants), expounded his ideas in two Manifestes du Surrealisme (1924 and 1930), found ready disciples in art (Salvador Dali) and letters (French Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard...
"Visions of Johanna," more exciting still, travels discreetly Dylan's whole range from realism to surrealism.