Word: surrealist
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Surrealism soon became a principal topic of conversation. The surrealist émigrés from Europe (Roberto Malta, André Masson, Max Ernst) arrived during World War II, and their intellectual intensity impressed the Americans. Some, including Motherwell and David Hare, worked with the surrealists and published in their small magazines. Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery gave many of the "new American pioneers" their first one-man shows...
Gorky became rather more a surrealist than anything else. His canvases seethed with strange, diseased, weirdly colored, biomorphic forms that hover in a mindless galaxy halfway between flower and viscera. Agony was completed in 1947 and reflects several personal catastrophes, past, present and to come. The burning down of his Connecticut studio, a cancer operation and a crippling automobile accident ultimately led Gorky to take his own life...
...first efforts looked like so many small Picassos. Later, they also began to resemble the small, stage-like Surrealist compositions of Alberto Giacometti, whose work Smith admired because it also incorporated the Freudian dream imagery so dear to Joyce. In 1940 Smith moved to Bolton Landing, and during the war years, he spent most of his time at his welder's trade, working on locomotives and tanks at a nearby plant. But by 1945, he had accumulated an exquisite series of small, neo-Surrealistic bronze-and-steel tabletop tableaux. Both Home of the Welder and Reliquary House are rich...
...sweeps about Venice in her private gondola, Peggy Guggenheim. 70, has borne a vexatious problem: What to do with her vast art collection when she dies? Her palazzo on the Grand Canal is filled with Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist treasures. Museums in New York and London have clamored for it but she wanted to keep it in Venice. Then she hit upon an ingenious solution. Why not New York's Guggenheim Museum? So, title to Peggy's 263 prime works, valued at up to $12 million, will be given to the Guggenheim-on the condition that they...
...line's phantasmagoria of apology and accusation calls for surrealist stage scenery and howling symbolism. A Seine barge becomes a houseboat on the Styx with doomed souls; Charon paddles with bones. Céline submerges readers in his stream-of-consciousness style, a brutal staccato in which about five words stutter out for every three dots. It sustains the impression of uncontrollable anger and unassuageable hatred as Céline rants against every contemporary literary and political figure, against the partisans who looted his apartment in Paris, against the post-Vichy government that imprisoned him. All is'"venom...