Word: surrealist
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...enraging, engaging Spanish surrealist with well-beeswaxed handlebars has arrived in Manhattan with ten surprises in tow. Samples: Galacidalacidesoxiribunu-cleicacid, Twist in the studio of Velasquez, and Fifty abstract pictures which as seen from two yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. Somehow, he frequently manages to top his titles. Through...
...conservative, brown-walled Knoedler gallery last week brought their poodles with them. The women wore full-length minks, the men wore grey ties to match grey suits. They babbled in twelve languages. It was the kind of crowd that Salvador Dali likes best, and there was the Spanish surrealist, who is now 59, in all his gaudy glory. His well-beeswaxed mustachios are a little shorter than they were. But his habitual gilt vest still glittered as he brandished his enameled cane and explained in cryptic Franglais the 30 new works that he had brought with...
...dictators infesting the art fields." He glued together tiny collages, which he called Naturelles-accidental impastos of tissue paper, newsprint, and cardboard stamped with the tread of automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove in a search for a mystical reunion with natural form...
...folkloric themes-Panambí is based on a legend of the Guarani Indians. "In my early works," he says, "my music had a nationalist flavor. I call that my objective period. Little by little my work has become more abstract and more subjective, until now I have reached the surrealist stage...
Until he was nearly 40, he painted heavy landscapes that rarely showed a human being. His style was a Flemish variation of the German and Scandinavian expressionism. Then in 1936 he discovered the surrealist work of Italy's Giorgio de Chirico ("I was haunted by his poetry of silence and obsession") and Belgium's René Magritte. "They were the springboard that brought me into my own world," he says. Delvaux destroyed almost every painting he had ever done and began anew...