Word: surrealistes
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...partly reconstituted here, with 19 of its more aggressively modern works, including Duchamp's then infamous Nude Descending a Staircase), and the absorption of cubism by New York, which was itself, as the Dadaist Picabia remarked, "the only cubist town in the world." And so on to the surrealist artists who, sponsored by Peggy Guggenheim in the '30s and '40s, helped provoke the climactic movement of the early American avantgarde: abstract expressionism...
...DEMANDS the musicians make on the listener's untrained ear are substantial but not unreasonable. Consider "Ode to the Apocalypse," which is, in Kushnick's words, a "surrealist love song" about two lovers spending a last night together in the face of the apocalypse; it has seven verses, each of a diffegent mood, meter, and key. It also contains many of the purposely electic elements of Kushnick's "surrealistic neo-class avant garde jazz/rock and roll" music: in this case, a basically straightforward key progression beginning and ending in G minor, and a Beethoven-like hand-over-hand arpegio accentuated...
...express the mood or emotional feelings he wishes, Kushnik paints a rainbow of "styles" into his songs--from the satirically self-mocking "A M-pop-hit-single" style of "Electric Eyes of Love" to a surrealist piano accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and Laughing Box." Or take the sentimental favorite. "New York City," which consists of three stoccato piano chords followed by a shout of get out of the way, you fuck." Bruce fittingly calls his music "Surrealist Neo-Classic Avant Garde Jazz/Rock and Roll...
Tribe will also exhibit 22 of his paintings at the Law School next month. The paintings are "surrealist and hyper-realist," with "a somewhat photographic look," he said...
...most brilliant and acerbic collagists ever to wield scissors. On the other hand, quite trivial artists are included; probably one cannot have a historical show of women's art without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face...