Word: surrealisme
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From Huismes, in central France, where he was vacationing last week, old manifesto writer Max Ernst was not long in replying: "I left the surrealist group in 1939 and have never since belonged to it. It seems to me that all those who have made the discoveries and the greatness...
Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage.
Dreams Like Wine. Tanguy's reputation is based on the stubbornly continuing popularity of surrealism, on the fact that most critics tend to praise anything they do not understand?and, most of all, on skill. It may be even harder to picture things the world never saw than to picture...
Ray stayed in Paris, painting and photographing, and became a leading exponent of dada's successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted, photographed and lectured. In 1951 he went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works...
In general, the show boxed the compass under the four strong winds of realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. All summer there will be muttering in a dozen tongues about the jury's verdicts, for the Venice Biennale is nothing if not controversial; it attempts nothing less than a summing...