Word: surrealisme
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A small group of strange paintings attracted critics to Manhattan's Balzac Galleries last week. They were the work of a bald, naturalized Frenchman named Jean Crotti. Painter Crotti is the most eminent exponent of a school of art known as surrealism.
About surrealism there is a certain lunatic logic which appeals to the precise French mind. Everyone knows that most great painters did not consciously strive for all the shades of significance which plodding German critics like to read into their works. They just painted. It is therefore the surrealists' premise...
Gifted with extraordinary technical ability, Pablo Picasso is a painter who has found drawing too easy. He can imitate anyone, which is perhaps the reason why he has become the most obscure, the most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds...
Despite its name and an imposing grey sandstone exterior, the French Institute in the U. S. building contains neither the French consulate, the French Government tourist bureau nor the offices of the French commercial attache. It is a private organization to further French culture in the U. S., contains a...
Chirico and Miro, two artists identified with that final phase of expressionism known as Surrealism, are represented in the exhibit. "Two Steeds", the canvas by Chirico, is charming both in its color and obvious content, aside from an elaborate allegorical significance. On the other hand, Miro's composition, entitled "Abstraction...