Word: surrealisme
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Surrealism. An art movement without hope or object cannot last long. Dadaist Max Ernst in his desire to spit in the eye of the world was experimenting about this time with what he calls his collages: fantastic pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities...
Dali. Artist Dali was born in Figueras near Barcelona in 1904, as a child developed a strong persecution mania and a wholehearted admiration for the works of his friend and countryman, Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali entered the Academy in Madrid, was quickly expelled for insubordination. As an art student he...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films...
Artist Dali who wears a knitted Catalan liberty cap whenever possible, takes surrealism in dead earnest, but has a faculty for publicity which should turn any circus pressagent green with envy. On his first arrival in the U. S. he solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on...