Word: surrealisme
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A recent official exhibit of young artists in Moscow included various artistic approaches: realism, surrealism, hyper realism, pop art, abstract art. Barriers have been removed from the development of jazz and rock music.
Hence its collection is uneven: strong in fauvism and the pre-cubist school of Paris but weak in surrealism, with some early Picassos, like the 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, and the late Braques, like The Billiard Table, 1944-52, of ravishing quality; obstructed by (mostly) dull American figurative works...
Sounds and images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the...
It also suggested surrealism, and to a degree that Goldman perhaps underrates. Early Rosenquists from 1962--like Noon, Capillary Action or Untitled (Blue Sky), with their small canvases that hover clear of the surface while still carrying the sky or grass of the background--quote Magritte with an almost naive...
The resulting images are like windows into a distinctly shaped but largely unrecognizable world. They have more than a little in common with surrealism; one thinks of the Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those...