Word: surrealisme
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In an effort to bring him to a wider audience, three of Aleichem's books have been translated into English in recent years. The first two (TIME, June 24, 1946 and Jan. 31, 1949), collections of stories, revealed him as a tender satirist and a wild humorist who sometimes...
He is willing to wait. His work, says Bedikian, "is in the great tradition of the masters"; cubism, surrealism and abstractionism "are not movements-they are modes." He is confident the art world will turn to him: "It's already apparent that it has no place to go now...
Postwar German art is having a fling at surrealism, abstractionism and expressionism (TIME, March 26), but what the Berlin critics liked best about the American show was the modern realism. Wrote one critic: "The most interesting American artists to us Germans seem to be those whose convictions are most different...
Although there have been other artistic motion pictures, Trnka's work does very well without the lavish surrealism of predecessors like "The Red Shoes" and "Tales of Hoffman." And its delicacy and restraint can not help but charm an audience.
Bosch was a sad, pious man with a consuming interest in the sins and stupidities of his fellows, and alternated debunking caricatures, such as The Magician, with huge, opalescent nightmare pictures which foreshadowed surrealism. The neat realism that characterized Flemish painting was as foreign to him as it was to...