Word: surrealisme
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DIED. Graham Sutherland, 76, English artist; of cancer; in London. Sutherland described his tortured landscapes, which blended traditional English romanticism with nightmarish surrealism, as attempts to "paraphrase the intellectual and emotional essence of reality." Although a rendering of Sir Winston Churchill at 80 was publicly reviled by its subject ("It...
An early student of the rich, Cecil was following the adventures of dukes and duchesses in the society magazines while other middle-class boys were reading about cowboys and Indians. Theirs was a fantasy world he longed for, and after leaving Cambridge, he found his entree - the camera. His lushly...
Tynan smartly cracks the code of Carson's durable popularity. What you see is what you get: a complete professional, as fast on the draw as any who share his spotlight; a neatly dressed Midwesterner whose underlying rectitude is beamed to millions of weary nine-to-fivers as a...
Restrained camera movement and dark and sparing lighting syncopate nicely with the undynamic plot and overall surrealism. In one directional flourish Ashby stole the theme from 2001 to accompany Gardiner's exit from his primitive garden-world into the "modern culture" and civilization of Northeast Washington D.C.
Visionary ineloquence has a lot to do with native American culture, being woven into the American sense of the epic-and in painting, Still is its living example. His entire output is a repudiation of the cult of the "well-made picture." From the beginning, Still's art-unlike...