Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buffet turned out a typical still life complete with pink fish, got an offer of 2,000,000 francs ($5,000) for it. Cocteau drew a doodle, surrounded it with blue blobs. Tube-Squirter Georges Mathieu held himself down, produced only some wispy black lines and fuchsia smears. Oldtime Surrealist Léonor Fini turned her refrigerator into a Chinese lacquer box decorated with stalking cats...
...garden was "rediscovered" when Salvador Dali journeyed there from Rome to pose in an ogre's mouth (opposite) while conversing with a white cat. Research by Italian and English scholars indicates that, far from being a surrealist chamber of horrors, the garden was originally a rather solemn effort to combine the wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left...
...Auditorium's new subterranean "Mole Hall." Every few seconds the caterpillar's double-hulled sides made of parachute silk heaved in simulation of caterpillar motion (achieved with the aid of a huge air-blowing system). The monster, which stole the show among 285 commercially sponsored exhibits, was Surrealist Salvador Dali's unrealistic idea of tranquillity executed for Wallace Laboratories to promote Miltown. Estimated total cost of the exhibit: $100,000, including a $35,000 fee for Artist Dali...
...soon wore "red trousers and bobbed hair," wrote surrealist poems that he knew were nonsensical ("one funny one went through three anthologies"), graduated to a mental hospital where he was classed as "schizophrenic." For a while he lived with a Scotch-Greek girl of 17, who took baths "with an old man for ten shillings, and bought [our] food...
With its macabre lighting and with Peter Brook's often eloquent staging, The Visit is as incredible and surrealist, yet as bluntly precise and compelling, as a dream. Right in the midst of her demands for his death, Claire will have a woodsy, almost idyllic reunion with her betrayer. The play's harsh power lies in just such incongruity, in its consistent theatricality, in its mingling of batlike symbolic figures with small-town burghers and clods, in what it graphically evokes but never exactly defines. Is it Schill, for example, that the townspeople finally kill...