Word: surrealisme
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Twenty years ago, Ernst was still a minority taste (a large minority, it is true). But when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile...
Died. Max Ernst, 84, surrealist painter and sculptor whose prophetic vision of art made him a seminal figure in the irreverent Dada movement and later in surrealism; after a long illness; in Paris (see ART).
Raw Sensation. The textbook characteristics of Fauvism are familiar enough: the bright, dissonant color, the crude urgency of surface, the distorted drawing and the love of brisk, apparently raw sensation. But there was no unifying doctrine, as with surrealism, nor even a strong common practice, such as the cubists found...
Cornell's imagination was allusive, delicate and, in a liberated way, reserved. He had no interest in the erotic, scatological and sadistic images that were basic to French surrealism: the Comte de Lautréamont and the Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway...
In that sense, Cornell's work is very much part of the history of surrealism. It grows from the same stem: a fascination with dreams, nuances, fugitive image-clusters, arcane fragments of memory and culture-an outgrowth of romanticism that, by the end of the 19th century, had accumulated...