Word: surrealisme
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Far cleverer, far more alluring is the show opened last week by Surrealist Salvador Dali. A writhing plaster castle on the outside, it shrewdly combines surrealism with sex, inside, proves that there is plenty of Broadway method in Dali's madness.
The self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in...
Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism (December 1936), a wow.
Thus a bold onset was followed by adroit changes of pace. Director Barr, whose fragile look is deceptive, stopped short at no dilettantism, worked like hell. Stage designing, posters, industrial design, children's art illustration and many an-other branch of art came in for special exhibitions, each worked...
Yet the World's Fair tripper, taking art on the run, could hardly ask for anything more panoramic. Ranging from tame portraits of young girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and...