Word: surrealist
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...variation on a surrealist parlor game, a small group of Harvard students pass around a blank sheet of manuscript paper folded like a fan, each one writing a line of music without being able to read any more than the musical notes directly preceding it. After each composer has contributed to the work, someone will sit down at a piano and play whatever surprising creation the group has devised...
Paterson draws on a wide range of poetic conventions, alluding to poets of a remarkable range of nationalities, from Chinese classical poets Li Po and Du Fu, to the French surrealist Robert Desnos and the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Though he always chooses to write in clear cut poetic forms, he draws these forms from traditions across the globe. It is impressive to find a poet who writes in a Scottish dialect in one poem—“I’m staunin here upricht, wi’ you?...
Xie’s curatorial arrangement optimally displays a series of surreal, sexually charged images. “Garden of Earthly Delights” features nude female figures interacting within a surrealist landscape, while “Erotica” depicts similar figures draped across an imposing, devil-like creature, whose intricate folds of flesh and meticulously detailed features elicit a potent emotional response. Perhaps the most striking of these sexual, unearthly images is “Los Dos Kaylas,” which depicts two faceless, nude figures, their bodies textured with a mélange of colors, perched...
...other family" - into the social and political saga of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), an ordinary guy in suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those shark-jumping events as a checklist of things...
Bidding went ballistic at a Sotheby's art sale in Hong Kong just over a year ago. A little-known Filipino artist named Ronald Ventura sold a striking, surrealist-inspired painting entitled Nesting Ground for $280,000, 20 times higher than its presale estimate. The emergence of a new trend in Asian art cannot be inferred from a single sale, but works from other contemporary Philippine artists such as Geraldine Javier, Winner Jumalon and Benedicto Cabrera are being sold with increasing frequency and success at auctions and galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York City. Mok Kim Chuan...