Word: surrealisme
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LINDSAY ANDERSON is best known in America for If..., the study of English schoolboy life he made in 1969. When I last saw If..., the night before the world premiere of O Lucky Man!, I felt that the more sensational aspects of the film's ending -- in quasi-surrealism with...
Rivette cannot rival the lush symmetry of Bertolucci's camerawork but his structure and psychological treatment make Tango, with its inconsistent plot and shallow characterization, seem even flatter by contrast. Rivette's psychology has its limits as well -- tendencies toward surrealism narrow its view, violence becomes stylized and unbelievable towards...
TO CHARACTERIZE my play I had to use a neologism," Apollinaire remarked in his preface to The Breasts of Tiresias, "so I coined the adjective surrealist...When man wanted to imitate a walk," he added by way of definition, "he made the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. Thus...
Pedigree. Ernst went to the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, and psychiatry at a time, 1909, when the subject was barely acknowledged as a discipline. After serving in the German artillery in World War I, he continued painting, and eventually reached Paris at a time when Dada was in full...
What has always rescued Ernst from the programmatic side of surrealism is that he has an incredible sense of abstract design and (in his later years) a total freedom from meticulous realistic detail. If one can judge from this show, Ernst has recovered in old age the ebullience that can...