Word: surrealisme
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> Antonio Saura, 34, is a slender Castilian who abandoned surrealism for the most tortured expressionism seen in present-day Spanish art. He sprays cynicism as he sprays his oils: "A renaissance of the arts in Spain today?" says he. "Oh come now. It is an art of protest against officialdom...
The influences of Christianity, Marxism, and Freudism have "withered away," he said. Even interest in Surrealism is fading fast, with only Dadaism enjoying current favor.
The gradual shift of world art centers from Paris to New York is not new; only the angry French cultural double take is. The shift began in 1956, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent abroad a show that introduced Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and abstract expressionism to...
Estorick's modern artists seem mostly pre-Kandinsky in style. Hardly a trace of surrealism, cubism or abstractionism shows; the most obvious influence is
Style in Curtis is closer to old-fashioned capriccios than to surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate...