Word: surrealistes
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Illogical Logic. At the Museum of Modern Art, it was Old Line Surrealist René Magritte's turn, and the exhibition of 82 paintings proved that the Belgian-born artist has lost none of his wizardry. Loaves of bread fly in formation beyond a stone embrasure in The Golden Legend; an immense rock floats weightless in The Glass Key; in Blank Signature, a fine lady upon a chestnut horse rides mysteriously through an enchanted forest, passing before and beyond a landscape painted magically as if on a vertical Venetian blind...
...some years ago, "I can paint nonobjective abstractions and abstract non-objections." But until he died of a heart attack last July at 66, he did not cease to see the world around him. He resolutely refused to paint abstractions, tirelessly refining the unique style, sometimes bordering on the surrealist, that for over a quarter century he brought to more than 200 TIME covers. A sizable sampling of these original cover paintings, and more than 100 other Artzybasheff works in several media, have now been brought together from all over the world in a retrospective show at the Time & Life...
...respectable Ph.D. before showing up to study with Art Historian Meyer Schapiro at Columbia. In the face of hardheaded parental disapproval, he had been sketching since childhood. When he showed Schapiro his work, the Columbia scholar sent him along for criticism to the lively circle of French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler to take refuge in the U.S. Motherwell's scholarship and knowledge of French poetry earned the surrealists' admiration; his work attracted Patroness Peggy Guggenheim, then married to Top Surrealist Max Ernst. She promptly proceeded to make him the youngest painter in her stable, which...
Died. Jacques Séraphin Audiberti, 66, leading French avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet, a surrealist who enlivened the French stage in 1946 with Quoat-Quoat, a bitter commentary on self-martyrdom, and in 19 other plays depicted the conflict of good and evil in a jarring mixture of scatological slang and 16th century classicism, in 1962 causing near riots when the most scandalous of all, The Ant in the Body, was consecrated at France's venerable Comédie-Française; of cancer; in Paris...
...world, presumably to prevent press coverage of civilian unrest. The new government had already protested that outsiders were misinterpreting the revolution. One junta-controlled Algiers newspaper complained that the foreign press of "the left, right and center" had ganged up to make Boumedienne's regime look like "a surrealist painting," That, from a government source, was a pretty good description...