Word: surrealistes
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...Nude Descending a Staircase, described at the time as "an explosion in a shingle factory," was the belly blow of Manhattan's Armory Show. He dabbled in dada in interbellum Paris by drawing a delicate mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction. As a surrealist masquerading under the pseudonym of Rrose Selavy (c'est la vie), he exhibited his portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, where it was hidden behind a screen...
...studios, introducing her to such greats as Arp, Kandinsky and Jean Cocteau, while Peggy made good her resolve "to buy a painting a day." Dynamite Chronicle. Their advice proved good. When Peggy fled from Vichy France in 1941 for New York, she went encumbered with her future husband, Surrealist Max Ernst, her ex-husband, Laurence Vail, and art that had cost her only $40,000. The collection that adorns her Venice palazzo now is insured for $5,250,000. She had snatched up incendiary works from nearly all the key art movements since 1910-at a song...
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW and OLD MASTERS-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. A double-feature of drawing: Surrealist Tchelitchew's figures and landscapes, plus the expertise of Oldtimers Piranesi, Marco Ricci, Ruskin and others. The earliest work is a 15th century miniature of a saint by Florentine Francesco Antonio del Cherico, a small gem in opaque pink, blue and gold. Through...
Hartford never finds time, in his condemnation of Picasso, to mention the artist's surrealistic paintings. Hartford likes surrealism. He thinks Salvador Dali is the greatest painter of contemporary times. He even forgives the surrealist painter, Tanguy, for not painting recognizable objects, because Tanguy's paintings are so meticulously three-dimensional. But what does Hartford think of Picasso's surrealism? How does he resolve the combination of his pet ogre of the twentieth century with his pet movement of the twentieth century? He shouldn't keep the answer to himself...
...straight-faced student declared, "Salvador Dali! It suddenly came to me that it would be appropriate to have a surrealist as President. Our country--so disjointed, only a surrealist could put America back together again...