Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the horsy set could nicker approbation of many a hunting and racing scene. But "The Horse in Art's" 1,000-odd items also went further afield, from archaic Greek vases to a surrealist canvas of a horse's head, surrounded by lilies and starfish. Best part of the show was its sculpture, which ranged from prancing pottery chargers of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty through the Renaissance bronzes of Giovanni da Bologna to contemporary U. S. Ceramist Waylande de Santis Gregory...
...sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
While the audience in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House waited & waited for the curtain to rise, they whiled away the time by reading in their programs an apologia-by Surrealist Salvador Dali himself-for the surrealist ballet they were about...
...even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as experienced by the patient-its atmosphere of muffled crises, sterilized optimism, morbid freshness, of surrealist panic as viewed through an anesthetic mask...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...