Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
...Painting. As aware of European styles as ever before, U. S. artists last year showed a maturing independence of them. Nineteen thirty-seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking...
...modernistic practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong...
...sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit...
...Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic in the U. S., and Blume became known as a surrealist about as soon as he became known...