Word: surrealistes
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That versatile Artist Salvador Dali should be working on a surrealist ballet is hardly surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...
...Mayor Gallery, fortnight ago, there opened an exhibition of paintings by a shaggy-haired, beer-loving Englishman who immediately, without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
Organized by chief Surrealist apologists...
...week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist Tal-Coät has set his face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact seen her only once, when...
...modernistic practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong...