Word: surrealisme
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Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I...
As for surrealism, Leonid never paints outright fantasies, "but I like to discover the surreal things that exist in nature. I look for the paradox . . . like men reaping seaweed or growing mussels in regular vineyards under water."
Prognosticators searching among the unknown contributors for tomorrow's literary white-haired boy will find New Directions' radar scope pretty murky. Most of the brand-new writers in N.D. XI stick to well-worn avant-garde trails, either rediscover a flabby surrealism("The rabbits jumped on the bed...
The illusions seem to have been shed both subtly and cataclysmically. Ideas such as those of Freud which had been around before the turn of the century invaded thinking they had never been intended for. Loss of faith in reason spread to the painters and poets and eventually evolved into...
For abstractions or surrealism.