Word: surrealisme
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After surrealism, new channels for the creative mind
There was a time, long past, when modern art was thought dangerous. Its subversive reputation rested on two movements, Dada and surrealism. From them, most subsequent avant-gardes have sprung. Cubist paintings by Georges Braque now look about as threatening as a pastoral scene by Nicolas Poussin. But most of...
The Dadaists and surrealists were the last of the real avantgarde, not because they were "great" artists but because they were the last men to believe that art and poetry could change the objective conditions of life. Dada promised, in the words of its mercurial chatterbox poet, Tristan Tzara, "to...
Hence the special interest of the huge, rambling, scholarly show on view at London's Hayward Gallery until the end of March. Containing about 1,000 items -paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, objects, polemics, documents-it was organized by a team headed by the distinguished English art critic David...
Surrealism was too volatile and too hard to define to be a system. As a viable "movement," it lasted from the end of the first World War to the end of the second-a span of nearly three decades. Like its ancestor Dada, surrealism was brought to term by young...