Word: surrealist
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...belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
...abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally lines and colored in flat patches, were made up of recognizable hands...
Edward Greenberg's surrealist montage, entitled "MozART is a five pointed STAR (arzica)" is perhaps the most strikingly radical work shown, but it is quite balanced by James Bishop's meticulous, if not too characterful, pencil portraits. The range between is thoroughly covered, and one can pick out Kenneth Henry's impressionistic "Study of a Model", Barbara O'Neill's powerful use of facial planes, taken from Cezanne, and J. W. Lample's "Still Life" very much a la Matisse...
...Burbank, Calif., Phil Dike is one of the more important ants. He is Disney's ace color coordinator. On the side, he paints water colors of his own. Last week Phil Dike had a one-man show at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries. Technically expert, untroubled by surrealist neuroses, social struggle or pneumatic nudes, Dike's splashy water colors of mountains, windswept beaches, palm-plumed countryside were sometimes reminiscent of Japanese landscape prints, were as brightly lush as a Montecito bougainvillea...
...people began to wonder what victims were in the ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...