Word: surrealist
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...hired a real live artist, jittery Catalonian Surrealist Salvador Dali, to do his stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...
...surrealist was Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy. A member of Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets...
Caught in the crystal like flies in amber were Surrealist Salvador Dali's woman with bureau drawers for breasts, a massive Spanish fountain by Etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, an opium-ridden fantasy of Painter-Poet Jean Cocteau, a woman feeding hens, by Iowa's Grant Wood. Even the shading of characteristic artists' tools was faithfully reproduced, from the wavy Japanese brush strokes of Isamu Noguchi's cat to the sculptural modeling of a Maillol nude...
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...