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Some scenes have the bizarre beauty of surrealist painting, and all are skillfully crafted. The final glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...body? It is to such questions that Bourgeois's sculpture turns itself, not al ways successfully, but with a striking consistency and intensity. Some of it looks "unheroic," deficient in fully realized form, even incoherent: but these are by products of her effort to describe, by surrealist means, experiences that are automatically left out of heroic art. For such operations, Bourgeois may be the wrong surname, but it is good to see such an artist getting her due at last...
...This compilation of syndicated columns is refreshingly freed from its predecessor's videoese syntax and pictorial tricks. Here the humor is literate, affecting and familiar. Rooney rolls up his sleeves, hits his 1920-model Underwood, and writes about his native suburbia with the exhilaration of a button-down surrealist...
...Surrealist Work by Julian Londa. At Harvard University March 14-28 Tichnor Launge in Boylston Hall Hours...
...Greco's paintings, simultaneously vast and womblike, in his work after 1947. Because of his aspirations to sublimity, it is difficult to assimilate Pollock-as some authorities have wished to do-to the traditions of the School of Paris. The French painter he most admired, the surrealist André Masson, was set against the pre-eminently French virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz...