Word: surrealist
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...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...
...small part of the show is owned by Surrealist Dali and Julien Levy, who runs a high-brow Manhattan art gallery; most of it by a group of oldsters with Broadway experience. Never publicity-shy, Dali, who recently broke one of Bonwit Teller's Fifth Avenue show windows because Bonwit Teller tampered with his display, is at present berating the Fair because it would not let him exhibit, outside his nuthouse, a woman with the head of a fish. Merrily upping the publicity, Dali's Dream of Venus has sent out a long press release headed: "Is Dali...