Word: surrealist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...olive-colored world that Kay Sage confines to canvas is wide, wet, uninhabited and untroubled. Her private cloudland, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, might depress some people but would hardly disturb anybody. Surrealist though her paintings were, they had no more wallop than a wisp of smoke...
...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...
Amid suits of armour, medieval altarpieces and tapestries, 50 cubist and surrealist works of Paul Klee went on exhibition in the Germanic Museum yesterday. The collection received a varied reception...
Artist Salvador Dali, 45, showed up in Manhattan with one of bis newest and oddest creations: a larger-than-life-sized, jewel-studded eye, with one ruby teardrop forming in the corner. The proper place for a lady to wear this surrealist bauble, he explained, was smack on her forehead, just above and between her real eyes...
...Surrealist Jungles. Texas throbs with prosperity. In a fevered decade of war and boom it has not only produced new fortunes in crops and cattle, but become one of the nation's great industrial areas...