Word: surrealisme
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Hartford dislikes and disapproves of every major style, except surrealism, that has emerged since the post impressionists. He objects to modern painting on moral grounds. "The purpose of great art," he believes, "is ethical."
Hartford never finds time, in his condemnation of Picasso, to mention the artist's surrealistic paintings. Hartford likes surrealism. He thinks Salvador Dali is the greatest painter of contemporary times. He even forgives the surrealist painter, Tanguy, for not painting recognizable objects, because Tanguy's paintings are so meticulously three...
It was she that he painted oftenest (see following pages). Her presence borrowed color from the walls of her bath. While fauvism, cubism, even dadaism and surrealism bypassed Bonnard, he kept his eye on nature and his wife's place in it. To many, through the 1930s and 1940s...
707 as Totem. Sir Herbert Read, the British art historian, contends that Paolozzi's "new images, functionless machine-tools or sterile computers, derive not, like his previous work, from the debris of industrialism, but from the rational order of technology." They go beyond dada, surrealism or assemblage in accepting...
Modern design starts with such 19th century artists as William Morris, the members of the arts and crafts movement in England, and the art nouveauists, who all felt a messianic urge to put art into everyday items. Dada and surrealism came along to mock them-but then the International Style...