Word: surrealisme
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The movie is somewhat redoemed by Peter Lorre's excellent portrayal of a German professor, just released from a concentration camp and offered a position in Argentina. Lorre combines macabre surrealism with a sympathetic Paul Muni touch in interpreting this interesting and unusual character.
The cacophony of extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated...
¶ Kurt Seligmann, Swiss-born painter -for a show of abstract oils with an accent of surrealism.
Pre-eminent in its field, the Modern Museum has become one of the most imposing of U.S. public utilities. First housed in a single floor on Fifth Avenue, it moved into its modern 53rd Street residence in 1939. Its Modern Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such...
Mouse as Man. Those plates, chief foundation of Dore's fame, pictured a mythology already "sanctioned in literature." They also expressed some of the undertows of unsanctioned emotion-no less than do the dream-found images of modern surrealism. Over-attached to his mother, Gustave Dore had a thousand...