Word: surrealisme
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This walkin, environmental sculpture took 13 years to complete. It is the most ambitious of all her wooden constructions. The title suggests a brief bow in the direction of another, and earlier, image of night and silence: Giacometti's The Palace at 4 a.m., 1932-33, one of the...
"Playful physics" was the way René Magritte somewhat disdainfully characterized the trompe 1'oeil style of painting. But the term could apply to his own oblique surrealism. Rings plunging through pianos, airborne castles, flaming keys and animated bottles are all part of the artist's whimsical, gravity...
Art appreciation was once a gut course-a simple matter of getting to know the styles and spellings of old masters. Modernism changed all that. Surrealism, Dada, cubism and, later, abstract expressionism, Pop, Op, minimalism and Happenings were too complex for simple appreciation. Edward Lucie-Smith, an English critic, attempts...
All this could be a recipe for oblivion. Privacy, however, is an ingredient of myth. Balthus is an artist's artist: there are perhaps three or four painters alive today whose work is a real addition to the great, tottering edifice of Western figure painting, and Balthus is their...
Largely ignored by critics outside Europe, the most important cluster of modern art exhibitions the world has seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models'...