Word: surrealisme
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Cartoonist Price's first big dent in U.S. humor was made with a New Yorker drawing depicting a man floating near the ceiling over his bed, while his wife remarks casually to a visitor: "He's been up for three weeks now, and there's nothing we...
Once a week he shaves and drives himself to Manhattan where he dutifully makes the rounds of 57th Street's art galleries. A great admirer of highbrow art, he speaks with reverence of Picasso, Pascin and the abstractionists, curiously dislikes surrealism. Wherever he goes he makes sketches, works them...
Most spectacular period in the art of painting since the Italian Renaissance is probably that of Republican France. For nearly 150 years French painting made Paris the art capital of the world. Touched off by the Revolution of 1789, modern French painting flared into world leadership with the severe classical...
Despite Art Week's purpose-to put art within reach of the average man's pocket-book-many exhibitors got fancy ideas about value. In Manhattan's impoverished Harlem, at the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, asking prices ranged from $50 to $2,000...
Deprived of French citizenship was Alexis Léger ("greatest living diplomat"), onetime Permanent Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, reputedly the "brains" behind French foreign policy from 1933 until ousted by Reynaud in May 1940. His fame as a surrealist poet was also in eclipse because surrealism is frowned...