Word: surrealisme
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Born in Switzerland 49 years ago, Giacometti found his way to Paris early, dabbled for years in surrealism. To earn a living, he made chandeliers, vases, gimcracks, bird cages and doorknobs. "At first you think [commercial work] is easy," he says, "but then you see even that is difficult." Fine...
The exhibition gives U.S. gallerygoers their first good postwar look at what battered Berlin has been producing in the way of art. The painters whom the Nazis prostituted have all but disappeared; those who were persecuted are building on the ruins. Among them are three topflight representatives of the three...
But surrealism could not satisfy Dominguez long. He oscillated between it and abstract art, produced cobwebby abstractions with surrealistic explanations. "Imagine any tridimensional body," he suggested, "an African lion, for instance. If we consider the whole formed by every point of the lion at every instant and in every position...
Such tongue-in-cheek stunts have earned Gugel the reputation of being a surrealist (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). But like Salvador Dali, he now dislikes the tag; it is too tired for publicity purposes. "Surrealism," Gugel says, "started as an art of the subconscious, while I try to be as...
Alberto Giacometti's surrealist construction, The Palace at 4:00 a.m., had tickled as many visitors as it puzzled. His new sculpture, City Square, was more serious and therefore harder to take. Giacometti had long since abandoned surrealism to carve tiny classical heads which he carried in his pocket...