Word: surrealisme
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Painter Giorgio de Chirico may be considered old hat at 62, but he wears his bowler with a difference. As the once-reigning genius of Italy's avant-garde "metaphysical school," De Chirico foreshadowed surrealism before World War I, then abandoned such enigmatic art to peddle a perfectly understandable...
Italy's Giorgio de Chirico is the grandpa of a lot of enigmatic modern painting. His empty squares, staring arcades and twisted mannikins have become the common stage properties of surrealism. But De Chirico himself long ago abandoned surrealism for candy-box neoclassicism. So when Turin's Fiat...
Surrealism was an old tired story when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly...
Out of the intellectual ferment that was Paris in the Twenties burst many strange and sometimes wonderful aberrations. The grand synthesizer of some of the best of these artistic movements was the little magazine "transition." Published first in April, 1927, "transition" found the inspiration for its early daring in dadaism...
He was partial to surrealism as well as abstraction, and disarmingly modest about his own academic works. "None of my pictures has ever completely satisfied me," he once remarked; "I hope that some day I can paint one picture of which I can say, 'This is the sea.'...