Word: surrealist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tradition-bound Boston broke precedent last Thursday night when the first exhibition of Surrealist art in the city's history opened at the Museum of Fine Arts. And it's an impressive first step. On loan from the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, the collection includes over fifty paintings and several sculptures...
...ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract the dancer from the dance (see opposite page...
...Fourth Dimension. Swiss by birth, Kurt Seligmann grew up in Basel, studied art in Geneva, and in 1929 joined the Abstraction-Creation group in Paris. There he worked with Jean Arp in surrealist exploration of a limbo of landscape of imaginary objects utterly divorced from reality. Like Arp, he drew "biomorphs," or lifelike forms-egg shapes, darning sticks, blobs crisply drawn over tempera grounds. To shock the stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable...
Harvey produced and directed the film, but this is hardly to his credit. Such self-conscious camera tricks as a surrealist montage of eyes to suggest a prison riot are howling failures...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for the first surrealist camping trip in history-a hilarious conceit by one of the U.S.'s "new cinema" directors, Adolfas Mekas, who keeps his cast racing from pratfall to parody...