Word: surrealisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
¶ Instead, which looked like a folded-up air raid instruction poster, was an unhappy combination of surrealism and existentialism. Publisher John Myers wanted a monthly magazine which would be "hard, virile, masculine, and which would raise difficult questions that had never been asked before."
Alberto Giacometti, their creator, a gentle golliwigged man now living in Switzerland, had spent a lifetime to achieve them. Born in 1901, Giacometti has passed from impressionism to cubism to surrealism and was dissatisfied with them all. The son of Switzerland's first great impressionist, he began drawing at...
Americans are apt to think of surrealism as a European disease which has only recently infected the U.S. Actually, U.S. surrealists have always been lurking about.
Like most apprentice painters of the period, Bruegel had begun by making a trip to Italy to learn how Madonnas were done. The experience left his Protestant nature cold; he preferred the brawling uncertainties of the North, and the moralizing surrealism of his Flemish forerunner, Hieronymus Bosch (TIME, Sept. 15...
"I was always a surrealist at heart," Gugel says, "When I was a child I drew all kinds of transformations. Things like Daphne turning into a tree, and Actaeon into a stag. Surrealism is a very beneficial revolution in painting. It results in conscious exploitation of elements which used to...