Word: surrealisme
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New, surprising, despicable -- not a bad thumbnail note for Ernst's own art, especially as seen by others. We have reason to thank the large soft pencil of the man with the mustache. Ernst was not a great formal artist, not by a very long chalk. But in the 1920s...
Subirachs' austere, squared-off style is the antithesis of Gaudi's ornamented surrealism. "My work has nothing to do with Gaudi's," says the sculptor, 63. Although Gaudi left a 1911 sketch of the Passion facade, Subirachs changed the arrangement of the sculptures and added controversial touches like a macabre...
The omission is both fatal and curious, for in some respects the film conscientiously compressed its source. Its plot has been faithfully rendered by screenwriter Michael Cristofer, and director Brian De Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style...
REVELACIONES: THE ART OF MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, Friends of Photography Museum, San Francisco. In Bravo's great photos, a modern eye schooled in Surrealism meets a timeless place soaked in the myths of church, folklore and revolution. Yet this uncanny locale is still recognizable as the harsh and tender world...
Varnedoe and the show's co-curator, Adam Gopnik (art critic of the New Yorker), have taken on a sprawling, slippery, tangled theme -- a survey of the transactions between fine art and popular culture over three-quarters of a century, from Cubism to the '80s. They set out to show...