Word: surrealisme
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On the same bill is the loudly-heralded UPA adaptation. On the same bill is the loudly-heralded UPA adaptation nof Edgar Allen Poe's "The tell-tale Heart." Imaginatively interpreted in a sort of restrained surrealism, it is a delight to the eye, but fails to capture the terror...
Dada was not all meaningless. It developed bold new techniques of poster art, laid some obvious groundwork for surrealism. But inevitably the movement was a victim of its own excesses. During the middle '20s, Dada suddenly died out and surrealism took its place.
As a school, surrealism has all but died of its own painted agonies. Its liveliest remaining master is one of the few with a blithely bubbling sense of humor. In an exhibit opening at a Manhattan gallery next week, Rene Magritte proves once again that he has all the technical...
Calling themselves "Maggie's Art Club," they tackled seascapes and carrier scenes at first. Later, on shore leave in Greece, Malta, North Africa, and Scotland, they hired buses and taxis, went bouncing off to paint fishing boats, beaches, mountain lakes and villages. Some seemed to model themselves on the...
His Hitler obsession, he adds, lasted until the Führer's death. He happened to be taking his temperature when the news came. For exactly 17 minutes he lay there thinking, thermometer in mouth. When he rose, his temperature was fine; both Hitler and surrealism were dead phases...