Word: surrealistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence of Memory (TIME...
Headliners of Kosleck's show were four savagely misogynistic caricatures of famed Hollywood ladies. While he gave each her measure of good looks, he satirized her character with surrealist trimmings. Joan Crawford's portrait was titled The Most Beautiful Still of the Month, showed her attitudinizing in front of a bed like any tragic stenographer. The Merry Widow showed Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled...
Such fantastic sensationalism of theme invalidates any claim of the author's to represent life as it is lived, except, of course, in the paranoiac's dream world, which is admittedly the level of reality with which the Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator...
Described as "a bit of surrealism to end all surrealism" by Ceramist Aitken, the figure was a burlesque of the paintings and parties of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Nov. 26). It was a very white lady with turquoise blue hair, clock faces for breasts and lamb chops sprouting from her shoulders. In a turquoise lined square aperture in her stomach stands a brightly colored vase. A fried egg is in one hand, a blue fish in the other. Around her stomach is a girdle of field mice. Directly in front of her polished thighs are two little football players...
...TIME, March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among them were exhibitors few expected to find there: Surrealist Peter Blume (TIME, Nov. 26, et seq.), Reginald Marsh, John Steuart Curry, Guy Pène du Bois...