Word: surrealisme
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Because the witches, warlocks and whirligigs of surrealism fall emphatically into the category damned by numbskulled Nazis as "degenerate" art, most people thought-if they thought about it at all-that the Nazi invasion of France would spell surrealism's doom. Not at all. Surrealism simply moved to Manhattan...
Since surrealism was founded in 1924 by the French philosopher and poet of the subconscious, Andre Breton, it has become a hotly defended cult, of which Poet Breton has become a sort of political boss. Despite superficial appearances, surrealism had certain rather logical foundations. Fearing that the art of photography...
Hunched behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali...
Ivan Albright calls himself a super-realist, says of surrealism: "I don't like tags. Surrealism means 1941-and a New Year is just around the corner." Some pictures, such as the wreath on a mortuary door, which he calls "That Which," take him as long as ten years...
The first big fashion to threaten U.S. decoration since the advent of surrealism is the bumptious patterns of hearts, birds, stylized flowers and valentine scrolls that constitute Pennsylvania Dutch art.