Word: surrealisme
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In explaining himself, the realist painter nowadays has to answer two realistic questions. Why does he not leave exact representation to the camera, which has been perfected to the point that it can catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see...
He studied in Boston, then taught in Manhattan. His own work was at first strongly influenced by Cézanne. Then the Dada revolution and the surrealists came across the Atlantic. In what turned out, as Biographer Ethel Schwabacher shows, to be a search for an expression of his own...
Of the three-Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau and Rodolphe Bresdin-only Redon is well known today, though more for his glowing flower pieces than for his excursions into eeriness. Moreau is a clouded memory, and if Bresdin is remembered at all, it is primarily as Redon's teacher. The...
Any film like this becomes a masterpiece if it succeeds at all: what is remarkable is that the myth does work. Largely, Camus has accomplished his end through surrealism and through appeal to a whole secondary set of myths: the archetypal image the audience holds of the rhythmic and sexual...
Everyone Is President. The Dada movement of the late 'teens and '203 suited his mood perfectly. Part of its creed, Ernst recalls, was that "everyone who declares to be a Dada isn't; and everyone who is a Dada is president of the movement." But what began...