Word: surrealisme
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True abstractionists have for the fur teacups, disembodied heads and limp watches of surrealism all the disdain of the conservative National Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient...
"Surrealism came in only recently, through such painters who invented this senseless title to stupefy the public. . . . In love with intellect and sensation, which has nothing to do with art, they stirred the public with ridiculous ideas, but did not produce any valuable revelations. ... No wonder the public distrusts the...
An old gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's...
Harry McN. Brown, Jr. '40 and David Langworthy '40 have made tentative plans for an exhibition of Undergraduate Surrealism to be held in the latter half of the first week after midyears.
But they are pleased with the results and urge anyone else who has a few moments to spare to try their hand at it. They pointed out that Surrealism is as yet an innovation and not clearly defined, and that therefore no knowledge of any kind of art is necessary...