Word: surrealisme
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An inspired showman, Barr masterminded hundreds of exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects...
Nearly everyone who was concerned with American abstract expressionism-critics, curators, the artists themselves-agreed on one thing: the movement, like its godparent, surrealism, was all about freedom. In Jackson Pollock's drips lay written the unfettered play of the mind, the swift "existential" decisions of the hand. Because...
A good deal of the popularity of Pop art, as the late Harold Rosenberg pointed out some years ago, partook of "the astonishment of Moliere's character on learning that he has been speaking prose" all his life. Suddenly, there was the commercial vernacular of America, that amniotic fluid...
In recent years, Lichtenstein has been preoccupied not merely with parody, but with parodies of parody-paintings based on the cartoonist's view of modern art. There was once a "pop" view of surrealism, loosely derived from Dali and Arp and epitomized in the 1940s in such verses as...
Gorky's career was of inestimable significance to modern art in America. It formed a sort of Bridge of Sighs between European modernism-in particular, surrealism-and abstract expressionism.