Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That versatile Artist Salvador Dali should be working on a surrealist ballet is hardly surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...
...months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst, on whom the buzzards have already lit; Security, showing more fortunate horses grazing on a prairie hill while a family whirls topsy-turvy in the sky above them. Not Surrealist was Artist Gropper's explanation: "It's quite literal-the cattle have some security but the people are up in the air. More generally, everything is beautiful, the country is nice, but where in hell...
...Mayor Gallery, fortnight ago, there opened an exhibition of paintings by a shaggy-haired, beer-loving Englishman who immediately, without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
Organized by chief Surrealist apologists...
...week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist Tal-Coät has set his face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact seen her only once, when...