Word: surrealisme
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Frank Getlein, in the exhibit's excellent catalogue, contrasts Avery with Matisse: both are removed from Cubism and Surrealism, the dominating forces of early 20th century art, but, unlike Matisse, Avery neglects in his subject matter the process of artistic creation. "His art effaced itself before the importance of the...
AFTER MAGRITTE, the short play which comes first, has the philosophical-absurd precision of Stoppard's latest work Jumpers. Jumpers is now being produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where the current Boston production also originated. There is a question of what was observed by several individuals at the...
So these two shows constitute an instructive journey through the achievements of a guild-like family whose work traversed nearly all the reigning styles of European art, from symbolism through post-impressionism to cubism, and thence, in Alberto Giacometti's work, through surrealism and out the other side. It...
The main debt Belgian surrealism owed to the 19th century was, however, one of mood. Whether the artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city...
There was also generally in the surrealists a theatrical state of mind, which in the case of Paul Delvaux became virtually a stock in trade. Originally an expressionist, Delvaux was a latecomer to surrealism, converted by an exhibition of works by Chirico, Magritte and Dali that he saw in Brussels...