Word: surrealistes
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...else, in the same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection of Victorian photographs of the Indian rajah (at Asia House Gallery) and a full-dress retrospective of French Surrealist André Masson (at the Museum of Modern Art)? Only, this July, in New York...
...just disintegrated. The water picked up a huge oil tank like a cork and away it went. There was a beautiful grove of cottonwood trees down below, and they were snapped off like matchsticks. Later I could see the water out on the plain. It was almost like a surrealist picture; as the water hit some of the farm fields, you could see an eerie cloud of dust and mist rise up three to five miles away...
...Boston during the last eight years, presented three works in this latest Dance Collective assemblage. "Passing Through" is similar to Soll's work in that it pulls together disparate elements. But whereas Soll sets incongruous images against one another, Gray brings together incongruous styles--the sports parody and the surrealist fantasy. Gray does manage to unify the two, yet connections between the styles go no deeper than the surface. Gray always seems to have a well-conceived them in mind, as is evident in "Passing Through" and in "Re-entry," the tale of a stranger in a fantasy world...
...ways the weirdest santos of all were the penitential death figures, especially a fine 19th century death figure kneeling on a grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with a sense of isolation - an image as suited to its desert as any cactus flower...
When Franco won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, thousands of left-wing intellectuals and artists fled the country, among them Luis Bunuel. Bunuel, who at that point had only made his surrealist shorts and a superb documentary on Spanish peasants called Land Without Bread, went into exile in Mexico. There after a decade of inactivity he made a series of low budget films combing social criticism with surrealist techniques, the best of which is Los Olvidados, dealing with street gangs and the culture of poverty in the slums of Mexico City. So, when in 1963 Bunuel announced that...