Word: surrealisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
As the chronology of his art shows (see color pages), few modern artists have passed through so many seasons of art with such persistent vision. For Chagall has lived through all the century's artisticisms, from cubism and surrealism to tachisme, and embraced none. Instead he has remained steadfast...
Cubism, however, was queen of art at the time; Chagall, who only knew Picasso casually, was out of the swim. His paintings at the Salon des Indépendants drew little acclaim and no money. Today, his paintings of 1910-14 are the most valuable and the most fascinating to...
It is a bombshell and London is rapturous. Wrote the Sunday Telegraph: "Peggy Guggenheim has achieved what many a museum has tried to do, and done it better." The collection is a chronicle of revolution. Beginning with a 1911 Picasso, through cubism, Dada, surrealism and on to the U.S. abstract...
By 32, Klee had already probed, as he put it, "beyond impressionism" and had become an unwitting prophet of the surrealism to come. More important, after many self-doubting years of dabbling at writing and moonlighting as a violinist, he declared during a Tunisian trip: "Color and I are one...
The master who painted the book is unknown, but he had the sharp eye of a jeweler. Details only 1/32 of an inch are revealed by a magnifying glass as ducks floating on a pond. He portrays hell's horrors with shrieking, Bosch-like surrealism, but more divine images...