Word: surrealistes
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...Moessel, a study of a chimpanzee squatting in a rhododendron bush and gazing sentimentally at a butterfly, and there was Sophie by Macena Barton, most disdainful nude in the show, sneering at the gallery goers who gawped at her large white flanks. The Illinois group was completed by a surrealist portrait of Charlie Chaplin, the man and the character by Anita Venier Alexander...
...patron, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Just as worthy, though it can seldom be seen, is its permanent collection, based on the private collection of French masters assembled by the late Lillie P. Bliss. Most popular recent acquisition: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali's famed Surrealist panel of limp watches on a dead tree. Last week preliminary plans were filed by Architect Philip Goodwin for a new building to allow more of this permanent collection to remain on view while the loan shows continue...
Pale, stooped Georgio de Chirico is one of the best known surrealistic painters of the School of Paris. Artist de Chirico is a realist as well as a surrealist. He ekes out his income with commissions for fashion illustrations, magazine covers. Art-lovers who flocked to a fancy Fifth Avenue address last week to see de Chirico's latest work, found themselves in a tailor shop...
While open-mouthed crowds still jammed the corridors of the surrealist exhibition at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art last week (TIME, Feb. 8), another imposing exhibition of paintings that seemed equally cockeyed to the vulgar mind opened several blocks away at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, described by the Alliance's President Yarnall Abbott as "the most complete collection of nonobjective painting in the world," went up on the walls for a three-week showing. What the public had to see were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there...
...Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that Surrealism had come to Philadelphia. At the Pennsylvania Museum of Art was the most newsworthy exhibition it has ever had, the traveling show of Surrealist Art organized by New York's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...