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...many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique of Victorian miniature painters...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...
...used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named Olga. He named the canvas The Road From the Cove, sent it to Pittsburgh, where it was judged preeminent by an exacting jury: precise Surrealist Pierre Roy of France; British Muralist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence; ailing Edward Bruce, director of the first Federal Art Projects; convivial Guy Pène du Bois. To win over the 323 other entries from six countries, Artist Kroll's canvas had to beat...
...usual, professional art critics whose annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...