Word: surrealisme
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High point for this new Mannerist revival is the current, three-month-long exhibition assembled by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. To show for the first time the full extent of Mannerist accomplishment, art objects ranging from bronze sculpture and oil paintings to glassware, furniture and sword hilts have been assembled...
No Man's Land. "I have always worked with the same purpose: to find out how to see reality," Giacometti says. The search has led him through an ordeal of experimentation and frustration -few artists care to undergo. The son of a leading Swiss painter, he started to draw...
Before Surrealism. Occasionally, an Etruscan work seems to leap centuries into the future. Etruscan art, in turn influenced by Greek and Roman art, even went through a surrealist stage. Etruscan artists turned out long, sticklike figurines with just a suggestion of head, breasts, knees and feet. They could pass for...
Adam Ember is a common soldier in a nameless army. Hill 317 is a hopeless position in a strategy never understood. The landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the...
ALMOST nothing is known of Hieronymus Bosch beyond the facts that he lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605...